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A Woa&ftet Scientific 3%&mt Rev 



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APPLIED TO THS HISTORY' OP T1II3 W9RL9 

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By Prof, JOS. RODS*- BUCHANAN fL B» 
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(A scientific secret revealed.) 

PE^I0BI©ITY 

Tfye absolute law of tl?e entire 
Universe 

LONG KNOWN TO CONTROL ALL MATTER 

NOW REVEALED AS 

THE LAW OF ALL LIFE 

and the periods discovered, showing 

1. The course of every life from birth to death. 

2. When to prepare for success, and when for failure. 

3. When to toil and when to rest for health. 

4. How to avoid or overcome misfortune. 

5. How every life affects other lives. 

6. Whom to seek and whom to avoid in marriage, 

friendship and business. 

7. Counsel as to parents and children. 

8. Warnings to patients and physicians. 

9. Influence of moon and planets on tides, weather, 

*egetntion, earthquakes and life. 

10. Warnings that may protect life and property, 

11. Plain ruLs to And your own years, months and 

days for success or failure, health or sickness. 

12. Destinv of Nations shown in the history of the 

United States. 

13. Dangers of the next eighteen years. 

14. Personal experience as examples. 

15. Demonstration in the life of 

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 



By Prof. Jos. Rodes Buchanan, M. D., 

Author of System of Anthropology, The New Education, Man- 
ual of Psychometry, Therapeutic Sarcognomy, Professor of 
Physiology and Institutes of Medecine in the colleges »>/" 
Cincinnati, New York and Boston and Dean of the Faculty 
in the parent school of American Eclecticism at Cincin- 
nati 46 years ago. 

San Jose, Cal., 1897, 
, . Published by E. S. BUCHANAN. 



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Copyright by Jos. Rodes Buchanan, M. D. 

1897. 



The News Job .Rooms 

78-89 South Second Street, San Jose. 

1898. 



Chap, i.— PERIODICITY. 

Origin and nature of the discovery now revealed — ancient 
opinions — its test b\ practical application — the num- 
ber seven the prevalent number in nature — aseptimal 
division in all affairs of life and in the solar system — 
stud}- of Periodicity by ph\ sicians — septimal doctrine 
of mv college colleague. 



After my retirement from the Eclectic Medi- 
cal College at Cincinnati in 1856, my atten- 
tion was attracted by an apparent periodicity 
of nature, in the phenomena of disease and in 
the different influences of week days, months 
and years, and my affairs in the college. 

Popular opinion fixed upon the sixth day of 
the week, Friday, as unlucky, and some of 
my experiments seemed to sustain that idea, 
which was expressed in the creative legend of 
Genesis, that God was fatigued on the sixth 
day and rested on the seventh, which w r as 
therefore ordered to be a day of rest. 

Friday, the sixth day, was the day of the 
crucifixion of Jesus, and has since been re- 
garded as hang-man's day, and used for that 
purpose. The wide spread opinion that Fri- 
day is an inauspicious day, would not have 
been so long maintained without some foun- 
dation in nature, and the same impression as 
to the number thirteen must have been based 
on some experience. 

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I need not narrate my methods of investi- 
gation and reasoning which led to the con- 
clusions that I now offer my readers, which 
have been confirmed by many observations 
so fully that I am warranted in offering the 
doctrine to the public, which I have hereto- 
fore concealed for thirty years, waiting to 
subject it to decisive tests, to know if it was 
practically reliable. 

To make decisive tests of the law, I have 
been accustomed upon first meeting a stranger 
to tell him of the favorable and unfavorable 
periods of his life, and to find him astonished 
at the revelation of his troubles, the times of 
deadly sickness, financial loss, disappoint- 
ments, calamities and failures in schemes 
that looked plausible. 

Some lives are more fortunate than others 
and the periods of distress or calamity less 
marked ; but I do not think the failure of the 
rule (by some interfering cause) occurred in 
more than from two to five per cent. That 
interference may have been due to astrolog- 
ical causes, or to the bearing of one life on an- 
other, as one's destiny may be elevated or de- 
pressed by the influence of others ; besides my 
understanding of the law was incomplete un- 
til in reviewing it I found an oversight. 

The law which I have found in operation, 
and which my most intimate friends, in test- 
ing, have become convinced by experience that 
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it is a law of great importance to be under- 
stood, is easily stated. \It is this — that all vi- 
tal operations proceed in a varying course, 
measured by the number seven^This septimal 
division I expect to find in the life of every in- 
dividual from youth to age, in the progress of 
diseases, in the history of nations, societies, 
enterprises, and everything that has progress 
and decline — in short in all life, for all life has 
its periods of birth growth decline and death. 
I presume inorganic nature has periodical 
laws also, as seen in sun spots which appear 
to have eleven year periodicities according to 
the latest observations ; and I know r not why 
animals should not have their periodic laws 
as v v ell as man ; (for they have definite periods 
of gestation, of life and death) ; and even the 
vegetable kingdom has its regular periods, for 
the solar system and stellar worlds have re- 
gular periods which control all life by the 
seasons, by electricity and magnetism, and 
there is nothing that escapes these influences, 
which are all periodic. 

The regular periodicity of fever has been a 
great puzzle to the medical profession. The 
great anatomist, Prof. Reil of Germany, re- 
ferred it to "some general law of the Universe" 
which was good philosophy and corresponds 
with Kepler's ideas. Cullen, Bailly and Roche 
made some imperfect attempts to explain it, 
but M. Brachet, a French physiologist tested 

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it experimentally very successfully by adher* 
ing to the number seven. 

Sir Thomas Watson, M. D., describes his 
experiraeut as follows: 

"Towards the end of the month of October 
in the year 1822, M.Brachet took a cold bath 
at midnight, for seven nights in succession, in 
the river Saone. On the first occasion he re- 
mained quarter of an hour in the river; on 
the second half an hour; till at length he was 
able to stay in the water a full hour at a time. 
After each bath he betook himself to a warm 
bed and in a short time became affected with 
considerable heat followed by copious perspi- 
ration, in the midst of which he fell a sleep. 
At the end of the seven days, M. Brachet 
ceased to repeat this experiment; but what 
was his surprise, at finding on the followipg 
nights, between twelve and one o'clock, that 
all the phenomena of a true ague fit appeared 
in due order and succession ! As however this 
artificial paroxysm was not very severe, and 
as he felt quite well during the day, M. Brachet 
determined not interfere with it ; but to ob- 
serve the result, six times it renewed with 
great regularity. On the seventh night after 
he had omitted the baths he was summoned 
towards midnight to a "woman in labor. " 
On that visit he overcame the periodic chill 
and fever and had no more of it. 

This shows the natural law of periodic re- 
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currence of any strong and repeated impres 
sion at a specified hour and day and the abil- 
ity to terminateevil impressions on theseventh 
day which k more marked on the eighth and 
ninth, so that the ninth day is often consid- 
ered critical. 

Dr. Watson says, 4 'we have much to learn 
on this subject" and wonders why in quotid- 
ian fevers their usual and natural paroxysms 
occur, not in the evening, but in the morning, 
when there should be the least tendency to ex- 
acerbation of febrile action. 

The septimal law of the two periods of life 
explains this by showing that the vital force 
is feebler in the morning and stronger in the 
afternoon. It shows the folly of early cold 
bathing. Many years ago several young men 
in a town near Cleveland get into a fad of 
bathing in the cold river (the Cuyahoga) on 
rising in the morning; which they were robust 
enough to keep up for some months on their 
theory, beginning in the fall without properly 
observing its effects. They were all injured in 
health and compelled to give it up. Warm 
or hot bathing is much more congenial es- 
peecially to the old or the very young or 
feeble. But strong warm constitutions may 
enjoy a moderate use of cold water especially 
when it contains salt or something stimulat- 
ing and is followed by friction or massage. 
The best statement on this subject in my reach 

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is that of my able colleague, the late Prof. I. 
G. Jones, who says, in bis excellent work on 
the American Eclectic practice of medicine: 

"You will find in many instances a tendency 
to a return of. the disease at set periods. The 
laws of periodicity appear to extend beyond 
the time governing the return of each parox- 
ysm, and to produce a predisposition to a re- 
lapse at periods of about seven days. So 
that a return may be apprehended on the 
same day of the week on which the last oc- 
curred; or to state it eategoricaliy, there is a 
tendency to areturn on thesf venth, fourteenth, 
twentyfirst, etc. day, from the time of the last 
chill. Physicians familiar with the disease 
have observed this tendency, and many 
have adopted the plan of fortifying their pa- 
tients against the disease at those particular 
times. The days mentioned have long been 
considered important days." 

In typhoid fever which comes on slowly and 
insidiously we have no day to count from but 
Prof. Jones says the usual time of the premoni- 
tory symptoms is about six days which is what 
periodicity would indicate. In favorable cases 
the improvement appears in the second or 
third week beyond which the indications are 
unfavorable. It is the doctrine of medical 
writers generally that fevers have critical 
days, a time called a crisis, promising favor- 
able or unfavorable results whether from 

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specific causes or from contagion. The sixth, 
thirteenth, twentieth and twenty seventh be- 
ing unfavorable days, the favorable indica- 
tions are apt to appear on the second or third 
day later. But the unfavorable days must be 
guarded against. When Prof. Jones had a 
student patient running into typhoid fever 
Lis prompt treatment broke up the disease in 
twenty-four hours and he was convalescent 
o^ the filth day, but not allowed to go out 
on the sixth. 

While the laws of the human constitution 
carry it into periodicity, diseases dependent 
on present causes must obey those causes and 
if the cause be bacterial we must study the 
aci i^n of bacteria. 



Chap. 2.-PERT0DICITY THROUGHOUT 
THE UNIVERSE. 

Effect of the moon on animal Ire and flesh — farmer's 
observations — all scientific laws mysterious — facts 
better than theories — why my secret is pub ished. 
Universal influences of celestuil b Hies. — Piedomi- 
nant influence of the moon on tides, vegetation and 
and life — influence of tlie planets known to the 
ancients — profound astrologists who are skillful 
physicians — opinions of Hippocrates and Kepler — 
a new explanation oi planetary influences — the moon 
governed by seven— testimony by ancient scientists 
— influence on earthquakes — testimony of M. Perrey 
Arago and Sir John Herscl ell — Pearce on earth- 
quakes produced by the moon — Commander Morri- 
son predicts an earthquake in South America in 1853 
— Kepler explained winds and storms caused by 
moon and plane's — Medical colleges ignorant of 
meteorology — testimony of 25 distinguished physi- 
cians as to the influences of the moon on diseases — 
moon controls cholera — new moon and full moon 
dangerous— effects of moon on insanity, ! emorrhage 
and deaths — on the flow of sap and on the weather 
and tides — earthquakes predicted — critical days in 
diseases known for 3000 vears. 



The periods of the moon are in sevens. 
Every woman knows how that governs her 
constitution. Close observers find the peri- 
ods of the moon, influential in diseases and 
its effect on the brain is such as to originate 
the word lunatic from Luna, the moon. If 
you think the moon a matter of no inipor- 
tanceptry the eiFect of moonlight on a piece 

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of fresh poultry, veal or mutton. Perhaps a 
mutton head will do as well. (Let some dull 
fellow sleep with his head in UKT moonshine 
and see how he feels next morning. The most 
experienced farmers who go by practical ob- 
servation instead of theories, pay close atten- 
tion to the state of the moon, because they 
find it profitable to do so. If they did not 
they would soon give up this old idea; but 
the longer they live the more positive they 
are. 

He who will not believe any law of nature, 
until he understands its cause, is a very shal- 
low thinker. All teal science is a collection of 
facts that we cannot explain. Who can tell 
why oxygen attacks iron, and why an alkali 
keeps it off, why sulphuric acid seizes soda, 
potash, lime, ammonia or common metals. 
Nobody knows, but such facts constitute 
the grand science of chemistry. I have a the- 
ory to explain lunar action, but that does not 
make it any more certain — the fact is 
what we must act on. 

If I had ten more years of life, I would try 
to develope the whole law of periodicity, 
but my own periods are now in their Nadir 
as to earthly life, and I can only tell what 
I have observed, as a matter of curiosity, 
having held it in reserve until tested by more 
than thirty years observation by myself, not 
thinking of making a book, and consequently 
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neglecting to record many interesting facts, 
for I was so interested in the profound philos- 
ophy and religion, which concern the fate of 
all mankind, that I had almost forgotten 
periodicity, when a sagacious friend to whom 
I gave the secret, who tested it and found it 
true, insisted that it must not be lost. 

I believe that in the economy of the uni- 
verse, as all stellar bodies have fixed periods 
and everything in the universe exerts its in- 
fluence as far as its sphere extends, it must 
follow I hat all the planets of the solar system 
are infl icntial upon each other; and notwith- 
standing the vast distances of the stars, re- 
duces the influence of each star to a mini- 
mum, the starry groups of the Milky way, 
and other celestial constellations, must exert 
a real influence upon the earth by their aggre- 
gate power. 

The moon is so near that all intelligent per- 
sons recognize its influence upon the tides, up- 
on vegetation, and upon human life, indeed 
close observers engaged in agriculture are 
very positive because they have observed it, 
that their success in agriculture depends to a 
sensible extent upon close observation of the 
moon's influence. Qndeed it is well known 
that the moon exerts an influence often inju- 
rious upon animal flesh, and upon the heads 
of persons who sleep in the moon-light. 

If any stellar body exerts an influence upon 
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the earth, that influence must increase or de- 
cline as it approaches or recedes from us, and 
must vary in the whole course of its orbit; 
hence it is reasonable to infer that certain 
phenomena in nature and in human life will 
recur at regular periods in accordance with 
the movements of heavenly bodies, just as 
day and night, summer and winter follow the 
course the sun. The extensive observations 
of the most ancient nations have convinced 
them that the planets of the solar system have 
each a special influence upon man and upon 
the course of nature; hence arose the most 
ancient and most wonderful of all sciences 
called Astrology. I have never had time to 
study the science, but I know 7 that it is a 
science of great profundity, and great value 
to mankind, because I have always found in 
conversation with intelligent, scientific and 
honorable Astrologers, that they had a won- 
derful capacity for revealing the outlines of 
my own life and its probable future. 

I have also found that very intelligent and 
closely observant physicians, w T ho have mas- 
tered this science, have found it of very great 
value in the diagnosis and prognosis of dis- 
ease, though they often conceal their know- 
ledge for fear of the colleges. Hippocrates, 
called the father of medicine (a very practical 
physician) insisted that every physician should 
understand Astrology. Kepler, the most re- 
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markable Astronomer of his age, was a de- 
voted student of Astrology and accustomed 
to earn his living by preparing horoscopes. 
Any Astrologer can tell you of many other 
eminent men who havecullivated this science. 
Though unable to study the science, I have 
speculated upon its philosophy ; for the astro- 
logical doctrine, that the time of one's birth 
determines the course of events throughout 
hislife, seems a priori so unreasonable or so im- 
possible, that I endeavored to ascertain how 
planetary bodies may efiect human life, and 
it appears from my investigations that every 
planet hasitspeculiai character, owing partly 
to the chemical constitution of the mass and 
partly to the psychic constitution of its in- 
habitants. A planet on which the conditions 
of life are favorable and the character of its 
inhabitants has developed in noble and lov- 
ing characteristics, must have a beneficent in- 
fluence upon the earth as it approaches, simi- 
lar to that which a good man has in society, 
for it has not only its physical attraction, but 
its luminous and electric emanations and the 
still more pervading emanations of its psychic 
life. 

For the pyschic life of a planet must be a 
pervading power. The many millions of souls 
of those who have inhabited it through in- 
calculable centuries must have accumulated 
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a vast spiritual power, for the power of the 
soul is almost unlimited. 

I believe lor example, that the inhabitants 
of Mars and Venus have a much higher spirit- 
ual condition than the inhabitants of this 
earth, and consequently are capable of exert- 
ing a much more beneficent influence than 
what we receive from Saturn. 

I hold it therefore not unreasonable to be- 
lieve that a study of planetary influences will 
reveal occult laws of human destiny, and I 
believe that astrological calculations gener- 
ally harmonize with those of periodicity. 

Periodicity assures me of a calamitous pe- 
riod for this country, to be developed in the 
first ten to fifteen years of the next century, 
and astrological calculations lead to a simi- 
lar conclusion. The student of periodicity 
would add greatly to his knowledge of peri- 
odical laws by the additional study of Astrol- 
ogy which is a far more extensive and complex 
science, as valuable to a physsician as any of 
the studies demanded by a college. 

The broad and universal science of Periodi- 
city, discovered by myself has not been sus- 
pected by any author, but a great deal has 
been written upon the periodicity controlled 
by the moon, and a great deal of practical 
knowledge of this is enjoyed by farmers. As 
the moon's orbital revolution consists of four 
periods of seven, it gives an excellent demon- 
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stration of the septimal law, which rules 
many other things besides the moon, which 
authors have not vet studied. 

As to the lunar influence, it has been amply 
illustrated by many physicians, whose works 
I have not been able to obtain, which are 
elaborate, statistical and scientific, making 
the lunar science one of the most important 
parts of meteorology. Hippocrates, the Greek 
father of medical science said, "the lunar 
mouth has such special power over our bo- 
dies, that not only births, but diseases, death 
or recovery have a kind of dependence on 
such revolution." 

Ptolemy had the same opinion, saying, "the 
moon being of all heavenly bodies the nearest 
to the earth, also dispenses much influence 
and things, animate and inanimate, sympa- 
thize and vary with her." 

There has been a continual succession of 
such opinions, and modern writers adduce 
the confirmatory facts. M. Perreysaj-s 'The 
number of earthquakes when the moon is near- 
est to the earth, is greater than when she is 
farthest away. They are also more frequent 
when the action of the sun and moon on the 
earth is in the same direction; and shocks are 
likewise more frequent when the moon is near 
the meridian than when she is near the hori- 
zon. Arago, the greatest French scientist, 
said, that those who disbelieved the moon's 

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influence, had never presented any good, scien- 
tific evidence against it. Sir John Herschell 
said, he had satisfied himself by long obser- 
vation, that the moon, when very nearly full, 
cleared the sky of clouds, producing a calm, 
serene night. 

Alfred J. Pearce, one of the ablest modern 
authors, has presented conclusive evidence, 
that earthquakes depend not only on the po- 
sition of the moon, but on the co-operation 
of the planets with the moon. But this sub- 
ject is too extensive to be presented here. The 
demonstrations are not only complete in a 
great number of earthquakes, but are placed 
beyond doubt by predictions of earthquake s 
based on planetary action. For example, 
Commander Morrison of the British navy, 
twelve months before the earthquake occurred, 
predicted that there would be "earthquakes 
and sudden chasms in the earth^in July 1853, 
about the 16th day, along the northern coast 
of South America— the earthquakes came al- 
most exactly on the day he mentioned in that 
region. 

The grand astronomer Kepler, who preceded 
Newton and revealed the laws of planetary 
motions, understood the Universe better than 
any of his successors and wrote a treatise 
showing the law of regulation of all meteor- 
ology by the action of the moon and planets 
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—a doctrine which has been applied in Dove's 
law of the winds. 

Yet the medical profession has always been 
too narrow in its views, and has always neg- 
lected important sciences, which may not be 
in the college curriculum, such asHemospasia 
which is the most valuable contribution to 
therapeutics of the present century. The 
average doctor does not suspect the large 
amount of knowledge out of his reach, be- 
cause it was not in his college lessons. 

As to lunar science, he knows nothing of 
the writings of Prof. Laycock of England, 
and such eminent physicians as Mead, Tesla, 
Balfour, Ramafcinni, Scott, Pearson, Kennedy, 
Orton, Allen, Leuret, Moseley, Proctor, Rob- 
ertson, Smith, De la Lande, Toaldo, Howard, 
Ouetelet, Pitcairn and Graves, beside many 
observations in writers of former centuries. 
V^ly attention was called to this by learning 
that calculous and kidney diseases were worse 
at the new and full moon, and the nervous 
system also in a worse condition. 

I shall offer enough of these observations 
to show that lunar periodicity ought to be 
known to all, and especially to all physicians. 
It is a perfect demonstration of the septimal 
law, and attracted the observation of the 
ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Jews. Galen, 
the great Roman physician, discuf sed the sub- 
ject extensively in his writings. The influence 

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of the moon on ulcers was shown in the Lon- 
don Medical Journal of 1785. Cullen and 
Balfour endorsed this idea. Mead showed 
that the influence of the moon was greatest 
in apogee and perigee. 

Balfour, Lind, Scott, Farquhar and Pear- 
son agree in the doctrine, that fevers in Ben- 
gal and India are controlled by the moon, 
and that not only in fevers, but in dysentery 
and spamodic and affections, aggravations 
"occur most frequently during the lunar peri- 
ods, i.e. in fifty hours before and after the new 
and full moon." They say that this was the 
general opinion of the physicians of India. 

Dr. Kennedy in his work on cholera in India 
says that its attacks on both natives and for- 
eigners are under lunar influence. Mr. Orton 
says that "one gentleman had a paroxysm of 
intermittent fever, every lunar month at the 
new moon for two years and eight months." 
He had one paroxysm for two years invari- 
ably at the new moon. 

The healthy and unhealthy periods he illus- 
trated by the following drawing, in which the 
black lines show the unfavorable periods, 
each of which extends three and three-quarter 
days before and after the new. moon or the 
full moon. 

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The attacks of cholera were most frequent 
eon or two days before or after full moon or 
change. Those eight days brought on 31 at- 
tacks, and the other twenty days only fifteen 
attacks. In the middle of the quarter (seven 
days after the critical time) there were no at- 
tacks at all and on the fifth day after the 
full or change there were only two attacks. 
Hence the new moon and full moon are dan- 
gerous and halfway between them is quite safe. 
Thes( lunar influences are much more power- 
ful in [ndia, because that climate developes 
gicat sensitiveness of the nervous system. 
But the effects would not be so exact and posi- 
tive in-more northern climates. Everybody 
is powerfully affected by the moon in the trop- 
ics, especially where the tides are high — high 
tides and high fever go together. 

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Mead speaks of convulsions in a young fe- 
male that came on with the rising tide and 
departed as it fell, and Brookes says that rem- 
edies for epilepsy should be given a day ortwo 
before full moon, as that is the time attacks 
come on. Dr. Ebers of Breslau reported a 
case of somnambulism in a boy of eleven 
years, which came on regularly every lull 
moon. Dr. Rutter reported a case of hyster- 
algia, which for many years increased at every 
new and full moon. 

The influence of the moon on insanit}', as 
observed by Dr. Michael Allen is the same as 
shown in Orton's diagram for cholera, 11 
deaths at full moon, 15 at new moon, one at 
first quarter, three at last quarter. 

11 Deaths 

rx 




15 Deaths 

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Observations in the Saltpetriere in Paris, 
showed the pulse of lunatics to be quickened 
just before the new moon. 

Sexual excitement is influenced by the full 
moon, and in India the sexes of wild animals 
are more apt to be found together at that 
time, the full or new moon. 

At the exact hour of the new moon Dr. Pit- 
cairn of Edinburgh was seized with hemor- 
rhage and fainting, and Prof. Cockburn at 
the same hour died from a pulmonary hemor- 
rhage, and five or six of his patients were 
attacked by hemorrhages. 

Dr. Moseley made a list of persons dying at 
from 1 13 to i 69 years of age, proving that the 
very old die at the new or the full moon, and 
from the records of illustrious persons con- 
cluded that it was a general rule. 

Dr. Robertson says that in the West Indies 
all sorts of vegetables are fuller of sap at the 
new and full moon ; hence the people gather 
the castor oil nuts and cut the sugar-cane at 
at that time, but do not cut timber at that 
time — the nuts are believed to be fuller of oil 
then. 

Dr. Smith says that farmers in Peru gather 
their maize crops in the decrease of the moon, 
for if they gather it in the increase it will not 
be free of moths three months, even if the 
husk is left out. 

The observations of M. Toaldo on the 
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weather of Lombardy for 48 years, showed 
that the new moon and the full moon gener- 
ally brought a change in the weather — the 
new moon six times in seven, the full moon 
five times in six, and the perigee, seven times 
in eight. The nearer the moon to the earth 
the more marked the effect, for when the 
new^ moon coincided with the perigee the 
change of weather occured 31 times in 32. 

That the sun and moon have a powerful ef- 
fect upon everything is universally known. 
Beside the heat, light and magnetism, and 
the effects of moonlight, which are like those 
of the Roentgen rays, there is the direct effect 
of gravitation. The sun at midnight adds 
its gravitating power to that of the earth 
and thus increases the vital burden — a de- 
pression which it relieves when it rises to its 
zenith. The moon is so much nearer that it 
is also powerful— more than twice as strong 
as the sun — as we see it in tides when a vast 
mass of water is raised five, ten or fifteen 
feet and in some places a hundred feet. When 
it is in conjunction with the sun at the new 
moon, when its effects are most injurious, it 
adds the depressing effect of its gravitation 
to that of the sun, which makes midnight 
unwholesome to man. At the full moon it 
sends in the influence of the moon rays which 
are very unfavorable to animal life. As it is 
passing from one stage to another it produces 
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effects on vegetation with which farmers are 
familiar, as physicians are with its effects in 
the syzigies when it works with the sun and 
brings on attacks of cholera. An attractive 
force which raises tides in some places from 
fifty to a hundred feet high must certainly af- 
fect everything on the earth. 

These things are obvious to the dullest un- 
derstanding; but all the planets in the solar 
system have their special affects, which are of 
course periodic like all planetary movements. 
They belong to light, electricity, magnetism, 
and psychic forces, which are illimitable; and 
I hold it demonstrable for I have discov- 
ered in my experiments that every planet has 
a peculiar psychic force different from every 
other planet and effective upon the life of 
man. All of this is governed by exact per- 
iods, and it seems to be well established that 
the influence of the moon and planets affects 
not only the tides of the ocean but the whole 
mass of the earth, causing its volcanic forces 
to become active and bring on earthquakes. 
Pliny says that Anaximander a Greek astron- 
mer " foretold the earthquakes which over- 
threw Lacedoemon." 

There is a certain condition of the planets 
which is believed to produce earthquakes and 
Dr. Goad enumerates twenty earthquakes 
which coincided with that position. In 1881 
Mr. Pearce predicted earthquakes when that 

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position appeared. It was verified by an 
earthquake at Chios in 1881 which destroyed 
4,000 lives— another destroyed 34 villages in 
Armenia, and sharp earthquakes occurred in 
Switzerland, Lyons and Grenoble. Several 
other predictions have been verified. 

This subject would require a large volume 
to do it justice and we must leave it now and 
all its numerous illustrations of the periodi- 
city which governs the universe, to present in 
conclusion some practical rules based on lu- 
nar periodicity, saying nothing of the plan- 
ets—rules which are sanctioned by observa- 
tions of three thousand years and endorsed 
by Pearce. 

These rules show that in serious diseases 
the crisis arrives on the 6th, 13th and 20th 
days— first on the 6th to the 8th day, the 
moon passing through one-fourth of its or- 
bit — 2nd on the 13th to the 15th day, as she 
passes through half of her orbit — and third, 
the 20th to 22d day, the moon passing 
through the end of its third quarter, having 
passed through 270 degress. 

This illustrates the periodic law first stated 
in this book, discovered over thirty years 
ago — the fateful six in the number seven — and 
the fateful 270— the number of days which 
brings us to separation from our mother and 
exposure to a period of danger. 

Nature should rally on the 8th and 9th 

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days, if not, we may watt to the 1 6th or even 
23d, but the 27th is a very evil day. 



Chap. 3.— SEPTIMAL vSYSTEM. 

Septimal system represented by the days of the week. 
The first fifty years anah-zed and described — nry per- 
sonal experience — advice how to manage the sixth 
period to avoid misfortune and reach wisdom. How 
the months of the year are arranged in good and evil 
periods. How to find yonr periods by the table — 
Importance of love and friendship. 

Periodicity and fate of our country from 1776 on into 
the 20th century — our public men, Washington, 
Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, Calhoun, Doug- 
lass, Claj-. Young men our country's hope— rich men 
our danger — another class our savior. 



The septimal division of time corresponds 
to the days of the week and is most easily 
understood by using their names, Sunday, 
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 
Friday, Saturday. Sunday is the beginning 
of the W'eek, Saturday its end. Sunday cor- 
responds to the beginning of life and the other 
days to its progress. 

If life is limited within fifty years, we have 
a period of seven sevens for its first cycle. The 
first seven years of the beginning of life is of 
course a period of weakness and growth un- 
der the protecting influence of parental love. 
The second or Monday period or seven to 
fourteen is a period of more active and vigor- 

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ous development under the same protecting 
care and the third or Tuesday period from 
fourteen to twenty-one is a period of still 
greater vigor, still assisted by protection ; 
hence the second and third are the best peri- 
ods. The fourth or the Wednesday period 
from twenty-one to twenty-eight isa period of 
struggle without protection, and consequent- 
ly of care and trouble, as well as energy and 
accomplishment. 

The fifth period from twenty-eight to thirty- 
five, or Thursday period in which care and 
responsibility is increased, is a period of in- 
tense labor and the sixth or Friday period 
from thirty-five to forty-two is the one in 
which the exhausting results of struggle and 
misfortune become apparent in a laborious 
life. 

The period from thirty-five to forty-two, 
being a period of seven its sixth day or year 
is the forty-first, and that is the year in which 
calumity, disappointment, ill health and finan- 
cial loss, are most likely to appear if the desti- 
ny of the individual is not determined by his 
stars as fortunate. 

It was in my own experience the time w 7 hen 
I retired dissatisfied from my college position, 
with some financial embarnssment, some ene- 
mies, the only ones I ever realized, and came 
near losing my life in the Ohio River when 
frozen, by breaking through the ice. I have 
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seldom found any whose forty-first year^was 
at all satisfactory and free from misfortune. 

The seventh or Saturday period from forty- 
two to forty-nine may experience the linger- 
ing effects of the sixth, but it is a period of 
comparative rest, and after the forty-fifth year 
men are excused from military duty to which 
they are liable from twenty-one to forty-five. 

From forty-two to fifty-six is a weak period, 
Saturday being rest day and Sunday an in- 
fantile period, the beginning of a second cycle, 
appropriate for change with the more auspic- 
ious influence of the first twenty-one years of 
a second cycle if the first has been successful. 

In our sixth period we need all possible aid 
from friendship and love as we do in our first 
6th period which is the time of birth. 'The 
best assurance of that is a happy marriage, 
and men generally obtain that by finding a 
wife younger than themselves, but women 
seldom seek the advantage of a younger 
partner. 

It is too late to wait until the evil time and 
find friends then. They should be found in 
our happier years, and it is desirable that 
they should be younger, by from 7 to 17 
years, which is a very favorable relation and 
it is equally favorable when they are twenty- 
five to forty-two our senior, in which case 
though they may be very good friends, we 
are not so apt to enjoy them. 
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I would also suggest that they are still 
better friends when they have left the sphere 
of physical existence, and much more compe- 
tent to give us good advice. Many calamities 
in human history would have been prevented 
if spirit friends or guardian angels had been 
regularly consulted, for they have a clearer 
and more dispassionate view of all things. 
They frequently impress women with warn- 
ings which their husbands disregard. If Ju- 
lius Cesar and Ton litis Pilate had listened to 
their wives, it would have been fortunate for 
them. If Abraham Lincoln had consulted 
his angel guardians when he felt the solemn 
premonition of his own fate by assassination, 
his life might have been saved. There is no 
one who may not obtain this protecting in- 
fluence if they seek it, for millions are now 
acsessible to spiritual impressios, and capable 
of giving them to others. Many a man's wife 
might be his guardian angel if he would listen 
to her impressions. If I were now to give my 
best advice to a friend at his outset, in life I 
would advise him to get the advice of a scien- 
tific and honest master of astrology who 
would show him the path of destiny which 
he has already trodden and must follow 
through life, either blindly stumbling or with 
his eyes open to all dangers. The Ttiler of the 
Universe has fixed our pathway and we can 
walk in it with eyes open or shut. I regret 
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that I did not learn the value of the science in 
time. It would have saved me from serious 
errors. 

If no such scientist is within reach, your 
ascended friends can see farther and clearer 
than you, and knowing what I do I would 
not be a true friend if I did not advise you 
rightly. They will advise you to lead a kind 
and honorable life as our elder brother Jesus 
Christ advised the world, and if you do you 
will get nearer to celestial wisdom. I have 
tried to show you in "Primitive Christian- 
ity " what the pure religion of Heaven was 
and is and if you seek that you will be be- 
loved in life and honored in death, leaving a 
good memory among friends. 

The first fifty years of life ought to secure a 
home and family, a good reputation and 
good friends in a good community. 

In accordance with these views twenty-one 
years is the natural period of encouraging 
progress — the fourteen succeeding years, the 
period ot labor and laborious progress, and 
and the next seven ending at forty-two, the 
period of decline and danger; so that we 
need be particularly prudent and careful in 
our sixth period, taking no risks or heavy 
responsibilities in our forty-first year. 

Six being the evil number, needs to be 
guarded against. The sixth year of a child, 
the thirteenth, twentieth, twenty-seventh, 

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thirty-fourth and forty-first are all unfavor- 
able in regular progression, bad, worse, 
worst. But the months are as important to 
be regarded as the years. 

Months— If the year is divided into seven 
periods of fifty-two days each the sixth per- 
iod will prove to be the evil one. Taking my 
own example, being born Dec. 11th, my per- 
iods run as follows : 

Sunday— Dec. 11 to Feb. 1. 
Monday— Feb. 1 to March 25. 
Tuesday— March 25 to May 16. 
Wednesday— May 16 to July 7. 
Thursday— July 7 to Aug. 28. 
Friday— Aug. 28 to Oct. 20. 
Saturday— Oct. 20 to Dec. 11. 

This I think has been verified through my 
life. October has been my unlucky month, 
and at the present time I am realizing as I 
write the dangerous effects of an evil period 
upon my vitality though no one in meeting 
me would suspect it from my appearance. I 
am quite sure the result will soon be fatal, 
for it is an evil period developed in fortnightly 
periodicity which is the most fatal. > 

^Our successful time is the first one hundre d^ 
and qg rhty-t;Yvn days &i%e& the birth dayT 
The latter half of our year is less promising, 
and the sixth period to be specially guarded 
against is from the 216th to the 312th day. 
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In the 6th period which begins our daylight 
life, we depend upon the love of parents and 
friends. So, in our 6th period through life we 
need that aid and should seek to have friend- 
ship and love to assist us. 

That friendly love comes best from parents 
who are 25 to 42 years older than ourselves. 
Younger parents are less beneficent, under 14 
years it is an unfavorable parentage and un- 
der 10 calamitous. 

BlRTHDATE. EVIL PERIODS. 

January 1st, Sept. 18 to Nov. 9. 

February 1st, Oct. 19 to Dec. 10. 

March 1st, Nov. 16 to Jan. 7. 

April 1st, Dec. 17 to Feb. 7. 

May 1st, Jan. 16 to March 9. 

June 1st, Feb. 16 to April 9. 

July 1st, March 18 to May 9. 

August 1st, April 18 to June 9. 

September 1st, May 19 to July 9. 

October 1st, June 18 to Aug. 9J 

November 1st, July 19 to Sept. 9. 

December 1st, Aug. 18 to October 9. 

From this table one may easily ascertain 
his periods by advancing his figures as his 
date advances in the month. Thus my date 
being December 11, the addition of 10 days 
would change the evil period from Aug. 18th 
and October 9th, to August 28, October 19. 
The evil months in the evil year, 41, are sure 



to be unfortunate, and in the fifty-two days 
in the evil month period the worst will be the 
forty-fourth, or eight days preceding the end, 
which in my case will be October 12th, the 
day on which I usually expect some trouble. 

PERIODICITY AND FATE OF OUR COUNTRY. 

Our country born in 1776 was fortunate in 
the aid of Washington born 44 years earlier, 
and of John Adams born 41 years earlier, and 
Thomas Jefferson 33 years. These men were 
in a favorable parental relation to the republic, 
but Alexander Hamilton, though equal to 
any in ability, was in a Thursday relation 
(January 5th, 1757 ) and his influence on the 
whole was not beneficent. Aaron Burr stood 
in an equally unfavorable relation, born Feb. 
6th, 1756, and came near defeating our no- 
blest patriot, Thomas Jefferson, for the presi- 
dency, which would have been unfortunate 
for our country, and his subsequent career 
led to his trial for treason. His date was not 
unfriendly to that of Hamilton one year ear- 
lier, but their intense ambition and rivalry 
resulted in his killing Hamilton in a duel. He 
died in disgrace among his countrymen. It is 
probable that if Hamilton had lived, his in- 
fluence would have been very injurious. 

In the 6th year of our country, 1782, and 
in its 6th month, March 18, was born, John 
C. Calhoun, whose doctrine of nullification, 
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led nearly to the destruction of the Union by 
the War of Secession, against which the Con- 
stitution-had not been guarded, as it was 
formed at an unfavorable time. The move- 
ment towards secession was assisted by the 
policy of Stephen A. Douglass, born 1813, m 
our country's evil period, 1811 to 1816. My 
own period, 1814, is not a favorable one 
toward this country. I cannot but antago- 
nize its character and career with the sharpest 
criticism. I could have no great sympathy 
with a population that was ready when a 
political difference arose to shed the blood of 
many hundred thousands instead of submit- 
ting to peaceful arbitration, and which now 
in blindness and selfishness is advancing to- 
ward another civil war. 

Henry Clay, born in 1777, was by that 
date in ffnity or harmony with his country, 
in which he was immensely popular. He 
firmly maintained its rights in the war with 
England, was active in restorning peace by 
a treaty, and in urging internal improvements 
and the promotion of our infant manufact- 
ures, but I felt in my first interview with him 
in 1832, that my spirit of progress and his 
mind on the American plane of thought were 
not in harmony. He received me with cor- 
dial friendliness but as my period was in a 
Friday relation to his (37) I was not at- 
tracted, and when I met another eloquent 

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statesman who was really my friend, my Fri- 
day relation to his birth (40) made me incap- 
able of enjoying his society. 

If our countrymen have already found the 
patriots that may guard our welfare, it will 
be fortunate in our coming troubles. They 
should be attended to and cherished now. 

It is probable that those born in the dark 
days of 1860 to 1867 will not bring a benefi- 
cent influence. They will be about 50 years 
old at our next cataclysm (1909-15). This 
is not a positive dictum, but a suggestion to 
stimulate vigilance. Young men born be- 
tween 1887 and 1888 will probably be our 
country's best friends. Men whose lives have 
not been devoted to accumulating wealth are 
our best reliance. History has not contradicted 
the opinion of Jesus that such men are not 
prepared for the kingdom of Heaven. 

They are not a beneficent influence, for any 
passion long and successfully indulged be- 
comes predominant. Even if wealth has been 
obtained by means considered honorable and 
not by financial strategem it becomes a fi- 
nancial magnet to hold man in the sphere of 
selfishness. The remark of Ingersoll that no 
man could own five millions, for the five mil- 
lions would own him is not contradicted by 
experience. There are a few who can hold 
large sums and maintain their brotherhood 
with humanity, but they are very rare and 

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extraordinary characters and have not the 
opportunity. Hence they are not known. 
The millionaire may retain some agreeable 
qualities especially if his wealth was not ob- 
tained by financial energy and sharpness. 
Neither the business world nor the church has 
any conception of the duties of a rich man, 
though Jesus Christ has spoken truly. Mil- 
lionaire wealth is fatal to a republic and has 
already dragged us down. And the people 
do not know that they own the land on 
which they toil. Women are our country's 
best friends, educated women can save us. 
The followers of Jesus Christ of Jerusalem 
(not of Rome) will make a republic when 
they appear. 



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Chap. 4 -NATIONAL PERIODICITY. 

Our country's history and fate — Calamities past — Ca- 
lamities to come.— Periodicity of the United States — 
war of 1812, earthquake and financial distress — Why 
the Revolutionary war was successful— Why the Fed- 
eral Constitution has been a partial failure. Critical 
times under Adams, Jeffersoiuand Aaron Burr — Pur- 
chase of Louisiana, not entirely a blessing — The Fri- 
day Septimal introduced the war of the secession, for 
fate has no more mercy on corrupting nations than 
on individual sinners— secession resolutions came in 
the'evil periods— desolation and moral corruption— 
the crime of Bankers and Speculators. Shall it be re- 
form or revolution — 1910 an alarming time — Tne 
voice of Jesus above the storm— Nations ruined by 
avarice of their masters — Rome, Egypt, France and 
South Carolina warn our demogogues in vain. The 
thunder rolls in 1909. 



The most striking illustration of the peri- 
odic law that I know, is found in the destiny 
of nations. 

United States began as a nation July 4th, 
1776. Its first cycle extended to 1824. Its 
Friday period was from 1810 to 1817. Dur- 
ing that period came on the unsatisfactory 
war with England called the war of 1812, its 
last great battle being Jan. 8, 1815. Had 
the war been prolonged into 1816 it would 
have been a much greater calamity. The end 
of a war is the gloomiest period, as derange- 
ment and distress have accumulated. From 
1815 to 1820 was a period of great financial 
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distress. The extensive earthquake of New 
Madrid in 1811, which was in this period 
changed the face of an extensive region. ^ 

In the Revolutionary war, the first 7 j'ears 
and 2 m®nths brought Independence at the be- 
ginning of the Monday period, September 
1783, and before its close in 1890 came the 
new Federal constitution, in 1887 and 1888 
adopted with great difficulty too late in the 
period. An earlier or much later adoption 
would have been more fortunate. Certain- 
ly its results have not been satisfactory. 
From 1790 to 1797, the Tuesday period, 
Washington was elected in 1792 the Monday 
of the Tuesday period. He gave up the office 
and we lost his services in the Friday period 
1796. 

From 1797 to 1804, the Wednesday period, 
occurred the contest arising from the Federal- 
ism of Adams and his alien and sedition laws 
with the whisky insurrection and the dan- 
gerous contests of Jefferson and Burr in 1801, 
in which we narrowly escaped the triumph 
of Burr over Jefferson. The Wednesday pe- 
riod on the whole was unpleasant and 1798 
was a period of contest with France^ and 
Washington died in 1799, but on the other 
hand Jefferson purchased Louisiana in 1806. 
It was a grand purchase for the United 
States, but in an unlucky year, and it resulted 
in the Civil War of secession, arising from con- 
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Erratum; In lines 7_and 8 for 1890, 1887, 188?, read 1790, 1787, 17SS 



tests over the regulation of this territory 
Jefferson was re-elected in 1805, leaving office 
in 1809, an unfavorable Friday period. The 
The Friday period took away Washington 
and Jefferson. Madison succeeded in 1809, 
the fifth year of the Thursday period (1804 
to 1811) therefore entitled to expect an un- 
favorable reign which was more fully verified 
from 1811 to 1817— -the seven year Friday pe- 
riod, in which the Embargo and the war with 
England made an unhappy time, and the Brit- 
ish army came to Washington. 

The Friday period of the second cycle (1825 
to 1874) extended from 1860 to 1867, and 
after the hostile excitement of 1860 the war 
began in 1861. The war of secession began 
by the attack on Fort Sumpter, April 12, 
1861, in the midst of the Friday months, 
which extend from March 21 to May 12. 
The union troops were called for April 15, 
75,000, and May 3rd 82,000. March 21 to 
May 12 is uniformly an unlucky time for the 
United States, most frequently by Corrupt 
and absurd congressional legislation, oFwhich 
a great deal more is certain to follows 

The first week of May is the worst possible 
time for the United States. A new President 
comes in March 4th, and the carnival of 
jobbery, intrigue and boodle, in dispensing 
patronage runs riot for two evil months, 
ably illustrated by President Cleveland when 
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he bought the Democratic party, and the game 
will soon begin again. 

The acts of secession were passed by the 
Southern states in the Thursday and Friday 
months. In the Friday period, March 21 to 
May 12, by Virginia April 25, Arkansas May 
6, North Carolina soon after May 20, Tenn- 
essee June 8. In the Thursday period, Janu- 
ary 27 to March 21 and nineteen days of 
Wednesday, by Mississippi January 8, by 
Florida January 10, and Alabama January 
11, Georgia January 19, Louisiana January 
26 and Texas February 1. The entire seces- 
sion was in the unfavorable latter half of the 
period excepting South Carolina, December 
28, 1860, which South Carolina put into ac- 
tion April 12, 1861. Counting from December, 
1860, the secession rebellion then begun, last- 
ing five years and (our to five months, ending 
in its fatal sixth period, leaving desolation and 
misery where it had ruled. Desolation was 
complete when we had reached the Nadir ot 
our destiny and we are going to the same 
place now — blind as bats to our destiny. 

At the ead of its seven year period 1867, 
the process of recovery began painfully in 
weakness through the South, while the North 
became the hot-bed of the political corruption 
of the Frida} r period (1866) so fearfully por- 
trayed by Mr. Lincoln in one of his letters, the 
consequences of which will probably develop 

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into another Friday period in 1910 and unless 
the seeds of political disaster, the unjust laws 
of monopoly, in land, finance and transporta- 
tion, and other monopolies arising from rav- 
enous selfishness and profligate accumulation 
shall be thoroughly burned out then by the 
volcanic fires, another Friday may come in 
1958 or possibly the republic may be broken 
and new common weaths have new destinies. 

The evil period was so closely approaching 
in 1859 that I predicted six years of disaster 
in the Louisville Journal. 

The opening of the war by Lincoln's call 
for troops, April 15, 1861 was in the exact 
middle of the Friday period, and its close was 
almost exactly four years from that time, co- 
inciding with Lincoln's assasination, April 14, 
1865. April 9th Lee surrendered, April 26th 
Johnson, May 4th Taylor, May 10th Jeffer- 
son Davis was captured, May 14th was the 
last fight in Texas, May 26th Kirby Smith 
surrendered. 

It may be thought that the Friday period 
of the country was not appropriate for the 
surrender of the Secession forces, but we 
must remember that the maximum evil of a 
war accumulates continually to its close. 
The conquest of half the territory of the 
Union left its population in a most desolate 
condition, the people impoverished, farms in 
decay, many cities ruined, their entire cur- 
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rency lost, their autonomy not yet restored, 
the ignorant blacks coming into controlling 
positions. 

The entire destruction of their currency, 
the greatest of financial calamities was 
greatly aggravated by the subsequent con- 
traction prompted by the bankers, about five 
hundred millions being destroj'ed, when there 
should have been an issue of $500,000,000 to 
replace the entire loss of their money. This 
was as disastrous as another year of war. 
We may therefore rightly say that the worst 
Friday year was 1866, the most calamitous 
time of the nation, the South ruined, and the 
North loaded down with debt with a vast 
pension list, ( and t he demoralization pro- 
duced by war afidThe cormorant impulses of 
knavish speculators, fostered by four years of 
opportunity, a demoralization which is work- 
ing out its natural result today, and giving us 
the sure promise of another period of natio- 
nal disaster equal to that from 1861 to 
1865. 

The sword of justice hangs over oui heads, 
for no nation can escape the calamities that 
follow universal selfishness, and as the second 
corresponding period of calamity is not far 
off all prophetic minds are looking forward 
with fear. From 1867 to 1874 was our Sat- 
urday period, in which the evil effects result- 
ing from the Friday period were continued, 

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and in the Friday year, 1873, additional fi- 
nancial trouble was caused by ^unprincipled 
legislation and corporate greed, which made 
Senator Newton Booth ask in 1874 if it were 
possible to have any reform or if oppression 
must go on until revolution comes. 

Our next cycle reaches from 1874 to 1923, 
and its Friday period comes from 1909 to 
1916. 

As 1811 brought war within one year, July 
19th, and 1860 brought war in a year, April 
15th, an inauspicious month for its innaug- 
uration, we ma;y expect if these precedents 
are followed that 1910 will bring civil war, 
or at least bring us to the brink of it, and as 
spring is the most unfavorable time to the 
country, especially the inauguration of a 
president, March 4th, it seems that our third 
president after McKinley will be in as perilous 
position as Lincoln, either unable to rule at 
all or only ruling at the head of a faction. 
And the second will find himself in a storm. 

This is not a war of sections before us but 
a war of classes the most terrible that can be 
imagined. The wealth that has been accumu- 
lated, and by its accumulation has filled the 
land with suffering and poverty, and the grind- 
ing action of corporations, and other combi- 
nations that disturb the whole course of in- 
dustry, throwing millions out of employment 
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must rouse a feeling of vengeance in the 
minds of victims if they can discover who are 
their oppressors. 

The truth must in time dawn on the human 
conscience that no man has a right to mon- 
opolize anything and no man has a right to 
hoard up millions for riotous luxury, and 
domineering power while his fellow men are 
suffering — that no man has a right to ignore 
the divine law of brotherhood, and therefore 
Jesus was right when he said the rich man 
would not enter heaven, for the rich man is a 
criminal under divine law as long as he al 
lows suffering to go unrelieved and as long as 
he enforces a social system of struggling com- 
petition fortified by monopoly which compels 
suffering, while the people's land, the people's 
roads and the people's money are monopo- 
lized. 

His palaces and his lordly banquets in sight 
of human suffering, despair and suicide 
among his disowned brothers, will rise in tes- 
timony against him, and a social order will 
be established that will forbid the uprising 
and perpetuation of avaricious millionaires 
to corrupt society and teach a perpetual les- 
son ot swinish selfishness, while corrupting 
the government into despotism that should 
stand for freedom and universal prosperity. 
It is^only a repetition of history — the "same 
drama of wealth corruption and ruin shown 

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in Rome and Egypt— the slavery of the 
masses predicting the destruction of the av- 
aricious classes as it did in Greece and as it 
did in South Carolina, but besotted wealth 
heeds no warning. The white man is more 
rebellious and revengeful than the black slave. 
Our good periods end with the century. The 
clouds gather in 1902 and the thunder rolls 
in 1909 to introduce the storm. It is a happy 
thought to me that I shall not be here to 
witness the coming Friday period. The na- 
tional demoralization has already gone so 
far that the philanthropist will not be lis- 
tened to and crime must go on to its punish- 
ment. My life is utterly foreign to the pres- 
ent system, and it w r ill be a relief to leave it. 



Chap. 5-THE LAWS OF PERIODICITY. 

APPLIED TO THE HOURS OF THE DAY. 

Morning hours feeble — Noon hours strong — Nature 
droops after six — Youn r and weak must go to bed 
earl y — Evil hours a ter 11 p. m —Rest till sunrise- 
Ruinous effects of work before sunrise — But there is 
another law of life now discovered! 



When the twenty-four hours of the day are 
divided into seven equal parts, each will be 
three hours and three-sevenths, equal to three 
hours twenty-five and five-sevenths minutes, 
counting it 3 hours, 26 minutes, and begin- 
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fling the day on an average at 6 a, m., the 
successive periods will be as follows: 

Sunday— 6 to 9:26. 

Monday— 9:26 to 12:52. 

Tuesday— 12:52 to 4:18. 

Wednesday— 4:18 to 7:44. 

Thursday— 7:44 to 11:10. 

Friday-ll:10 to 2:36. 

Saturday— 2:36 to 6. 

The morning or Sunday hour of youthfui 
freshness and preparation, laying in nourish- 
ment, and active freedom of movement, but 
not the hour cf vigor or the best achieve- 
ment. 

The Monday hours are the hours of energy, 
achievement and success, the best part of the 
day. The Tuesday or afternoon hours are 
good also, but not as good as Monday; 
and Wednesday, when fatigue begins is a 
great deal less favorable, but may carry on 
and consummate the work of the seven best 
hours. The Thursday hours of night work 
are still less favorable and finally demand a 
pause. 

The Friday hours are the time of rest which 
should never be invaded by labor. Nature then 
withdraws her resources; malaria concen- 

; * 

trates near the earth; criminals, burglars and 
assasins are tempted to engage in crime, and 
the protective power of daylight and society 
is gone. The sun beneath the earth has a de- 

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pressing power to match his elevating power 
at noon, and if the moon appears it gives no 
life, for it has no vital force to give. The Sat- 
urday hours after three, bring on a more rest- 
ful condition until daylight; the dews or 
frosts of the night are giving some freshness 
to the air. The secretions of the body have 
purified the blood, and the supply of oxygen 
in the blood is increased, and the excreta are 
ready for discharge which should be attended 
to. The body and brain realize restoration 
and preparation for activity. 

This corresponds to the ante-natal condi- 
tion before birth as sunrise corresponds to 
birth. The condition of the infant is nour- 
ished and growing. This is the time that we 
grow and our rest is like the ante-natal rest. 
We rise in the morning a little taller than 
when we laid down at night. 

The ante-natal rest is sustained by the 
mother's life and love and the Saturday rest 
before day is sustained by the spirit of the uni- 
verse ; that is the time when in our passive- 
ness, all things being tranquil, our spirit 
friends are able to come with blessings, or 
with visions more vivid as day approaches ; 
and morning dreams or visions are apt to be 
true or symbolical of the truth. The Friday 
period forbids action, and invites us to rely 
on the oversoul of the universe, just as the 
forty-first year invites us to caution and re- 
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pose instead of action and risk. The Sunday 
hour of rising after six o'clock is to^many 
people's constitutions an hour of feebleness, 
when neither brain nor body should be in any 
way taxed; this I have often realized when 
debilitated. Even those who are robust 
should not tax themselves heavily then, for 
their strength is not fully developed and it 
would diminish their energy through the day. 

Farmers and laborers who rouse them- 
selves for labor long before sunrise shorten 
their lives and exhaust the nervous system. 
This is peculiarly destructive to children, who, 
being in their Sundav period, the first seven 
years, should not be taxed in any way, but 
should enjo\^ the morning rest. For one to 
go to work before breakfast is like putting 
children to labor; to rouse before day for 
work is somewhat like taxing the unborn 
child through its mother. It is taxing the 
constitution before it is completely renovated. 
The amount of lunacy and brain exhaustion 
among farmers is due largely to their early 
rising, and imposKig early rising on their 
children. Our writers on hygiene should en- 
deavor to make this extensively known. 

Humanity forbids child labor in factories. 
It should forbid all labor between ten at 
night and six in the morning. Indeed seven 
is an early hour for the factory bell; half-past 
seven or eight would be better; from eight to 

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twelve and from one to five ought to be the 
limit of labor, but night labor before ten is 
less injurious than morning labor before 
eight. 

On the fatal day o( crucifixion Jesus ex- 
perienced the evil morning hour before Pilate, 
and the evil afternoon hour in his crucifixion. 

Going to work before day is a disastrous 
practice— even going to work at sunrise is 
wrong. Car horses which start early are 
short lived. Both men and horses that lun 
milk wagons, beginning their work at three 
or four o'clock break down and have to quit. 
A dairyman told me that he had broken him- 
self down by getting up for his business at 
three o'clock and the men he employed never 
adhered to the business a whole year. Five 
or six months was enough generally to ex- 
haust them and a common horse starting out 
every morning before day would break down 
in three months, though a very strong one 
well cared for might last longer. The ap- 
pearance of the horses shows their, exhausted 
condition. But after all this is not the whole 
story. I have discovered another law. Man 
has two sources of life and two dates. 



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Chap. 6.— VITAL PERIODS AND EXTER- 
NAL PERIODS COMPARED. 

THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL AND THE LIGHT OF 
THE SUN AS SOURCES OF LIFE. 

The beginnings of life are critical periods — The first year 
a battle — Strong and weak constitutions explained — 
The two critical periods of life — When we have 
s'rength and why — Day work and night work — 
Morning weakness and sickness — Precautions for old 
men — A hygienic discovery— Farm laborers and dai- 
rymen — Management of children — Afternoon work — 
Legislators — Table of morning life and evening life — 
The two dates, importance of, the one unknown — 
Nero's mother — Controlling the creative process- 
Hypocritical superstition in favor of ignorance — 
Duty to posterit}'— Birth dates and life dates com- 
pared — When vitalitv fails — The Friday periods of 
life dates — Dangers at birth — The ni3 r stcrious law — 
Critical Friday time at weaning — Birthday advice — 
Period of gestation — Critical time in 40th year — The 
vernal equinox— Suppers and breakfasts — Birth dates. 



The Beginning of Life.— Our first en- 
trance into this world gives us the most im- 
pressive lesson in periodicity, though we are 
too young to learn it, and no one has profited 
by the lesson. 

Our life begins at conception, and this first 
year of our life comes to its Friday period af- 
ter birth. Dividing our first year into its 
seven periods after conception, the sixth or 
Friday period begins at the 260th day, when 

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our mother is preparing to throw us off into 
the dangers of the outside world, for the per- 
iod of gestation is usually 270 days-(or 280) 
which brings us into our Friday period and 
the longer the birth is postponed, the farther 
it advances us into the Friday period, and the 
more dangerous it becomes to the mother 
and the child for she sympathizes with her 
offspring in the Friday period. It is a critical 
period and the church is accustomed to pray 
for the safety of women in child-bed. In this 
critical,.. .-period we lose the protection ^and 
nourishment of the mother's constitution, 
and are cast forth into serious dangers — im- 
mediate peril of health and life which we usu- 
ally manifest by the crj' of alarm. The act of 
birth has exposed us to many accidents and 
and calamities, and the earlier it begins, to 
avoid the Friday period, the better for our 
safety, but the evil days must be realized. It 
is the most tragical period of our whole ex- 
istence, for unless the circumstances are fav- 
orable, half the children born die in the first 
six years. Starting in the unfavorable Fri- 
day period of our first year of existence, we 
enter upon our life of exposure in its Sunday 
period of exterior weakness, and in the Fri- 
day month ol our complete life. Hence the 
first six weeks of the infant are a very critical 
period, being all in the Friday month. 
This history shows that we have two per- 
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iods to calculate. The life period, which is 9 
months longer, as it begins that much earlier, 
a»d the day period, which commences at 
birth. As the consequences of these two per- 
iods extend through life, they give us an im- 
portant lesson. When the original life force 
is strong, it gives us ability at particular 
times which differ from the day force, and 
when it is feeble we must depend on the day 
force and fail when that fails. 

The first 3V2 hours of the morning have lit- 
tle strength for the day life and less for the 
spirit life or vitality. Nothing great is done 
at this time, and all great exertion is exhaust- 
ing and ultimately destructive. Old men in 
in their fortnightly Friday, when day life has 
lost its power, should do little in the fore- 
noon. After a strong breakfast they should 
retire to their couch and commune with their 
spirit friends and God in a comfortably warm 
apartment with pure air, which must be rein- 
forced with oxygen and ozone. 

The detrimental effect of morning labor 
seems to me an important hygienic discovery, 
for I have never seen or heard any allusion to 
it by hygienists, practical men or miscellane- 
ous writers and yet the facts are patent. 

Anyone may observe the premature exhaus- 
tion and vital dullness of farm laborers in 
comparison with people of the city who ob- 
serve later hours. The rapid exhaustion of 

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life in horses of the street cars is a familiar 
fact, and still more remarkable is the ex- 
hausted condition of horses and 'drivers of 
milk wagons that start their labors long be- 
fore daylight to serve customers in the morn- 
ing. There is a great contrast too between 
the farmed work horses that start early, 
and the saddle and carriage horses that ob- 
serve later hours. 

Calling up children early to study before 
breakfast or immediately after is an iniquity. 
No school should begin before nine o'clock. 

The maximum of this folly is reached in the 
unnatural hours of monasteries. 

There is a great deal of night service of po- 
licemen, servants and railroad employes 
which is highly injurious. 

Strenuous exertion in the afternoon hours 
is well borne by those of strong vital tempera- 
ment, for it is their best time — and they are 
vigorous till twelve p. m. 

The greatest mental peformances of strong 
men are in the late afternoon and evening. 
Legislative bodies do well to meet at 10 in 
the forenoon and continue until 10 or 11 at 
night or later. 

We may speak of the two sources of life as 
morning life and evening life. They run to- 
gether as follows, beginning: 
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MORNING LIFE. EVENING LIFE. 

6 a. m. — Sunday, Friday. 

9:26— Monday, Saturday. 

1 2:52— Tuesday, Sunday. 

Constitutions strong in the life power, date 
from nine months before birth, as their most 
important period. Their native strength is 
favorable to longevity. 

Constitutions with a feeble endowment of 
spirit or life must rely chiefly on the sun force 
of the day, food, air and sunshine, and date 
from birth and sunrise. Their force declines 
with the sun and they should retire early, as 
the animals do. They are unfit for night 
work. Their best energy is from 9:30 to 1 p. 
m., which is moderately maintained till six 
or seven. They should retire not later than 
9 p. m. and must have absolute rest from 
11:30 to 3. 

The highly vital class date their vigorous 
life not from sunrise to one p. m, but from 1 
p. m. to 8, with a prolongation in good 
vigor to 12 or 1 p. m. They endure night 
work with ease. 

VITAL PERIODS AND EXTERNAL PERIODS COM- 
PARED. 

Studies of human life heretofore have been 
based upon our birth. From that date we 
study our relations to coming years, coming 

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months and coming days. But looking deeper 
into the subject I perceived that there was 
another and a very influential date. 

We do not begin life in birth. Life began 
nine months earlier, by conception, and those 
nine months are decisive. They are the most 
important portion of our life, when the foun- 
dation of our destiny is laid, and astrology 
must be an incomplete science until it takes 
cognizance of conception as well as birth. 
And humanitarian science is a very imperfect 
sort of sanctimonious quackery as long as it 
neglects the prenatal life which determines 
the fate of coming generations by the impres- 
sions made. These are our permanent nature 
and if they are very evil impressions they 
may give us a wretched destiny, which, cen- 
turies in the higher world, may not be able 
to overcome. 

The mother of Nero (Agrippina) was a sister 
of the monster emperor Caligula, endowed 
with a similar nature, and the evil impress 
she made in her offspring was rewarded by 
being murdered by her own son who is prob- 
ably still in the dark regions provided for 
criminals in the spirit world. 

To control the creation of humanity is a 
philanthropy beyond all others. But they 
who lead in such a reform are liable to be as- 
sailed by all the combined ignorance and big- 
otry which hides itself under a hypocritical 
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mask of pretended Christianity, and seeks to 
persecute all who bring the discussion of such 
subjects before the people who are interested 
instead of having it confined to the medical 
profession, to whom it is a question of pro- 
fessional business. 

I will show presently how to perform your 
duty to posterity and insure children who 
may rise up and call you blessed ; but just 
now i must show how the dates of concep- 
tion and birth bear upon our destiny and 
upon the proper use of our time. 

We have nine months with our mother, be- 
fore we depend on air, food and sunshine for 
our earthly life, and have to count our earthly 
destiny from sun dates. 

It is more important to be well conceived 
than to be well born, for that conception 
may carry us to the loftiest destiny and if an 
evil conception our doom is sealed. 

Both conception and birth give critical 
dates, and both should be studied to deter- 
mine our life periods and policy in years and 
months. 

As conception is usually nine months earlier 
than birth the reader will perceive that one 
who is born on January 1st was probably 
conceived April 1st in the preceding year. 
The month of conception therefore comes, 
though nine months earlier, three months 
later in the same year than the month of 

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birth, and as to monthly periods we must 
put its recurrence three months later, but as 
to annual periods nine months earlier. 

Hence when my evil Friday sun period came, 
in September and October, 1855, my evil vital 
period came in December and January, 1854. 
I had not then thought of the vital periods 
but I recollect some affections of the lungs in 
winter — and that w T inter has not been to me 
a beneficial season in health — colds and pleu- 
risy being my liability. 

Hence in predicting for ourselves or friends 
we must recollect that evils in health come 
nine months earlier than the external rela- 
tions of the evils of business and exposures, 
but three months later in each year. 

The failure in vital energy may be a predis- 
posing cause to ill luck in business relations, 
but usually the external depression precedes 
and becomes a cause of the internal. Worry in 
business brings on worry in health. 

We understand this better by going back 
to causes. Unborn life begins nine months 
before exterior life or birth, under the protec- 
tion of love. That protecting power breaks 
down at the end of the ninth month, 270 or 
280 days, and expels us into the dangers and 
hardships of the exterior atmospheric life in 
which we have to generate our own warmth. 
This is the sixth or Friday period of the in- 
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terior life which may begin at the 2G0th day 
or end of the 5th period and last 52 days. 

From the 260th to the 270th day is usually 
the beginning of our Friday trouble, as the 
maternal constitution is unable to shelter us 
any longer. We are thrust out in distress— 
the sooner the better — even if we cornea little 
sooner before Friday it is a little better. 
Parturition should never be delayed — for the 
longer delayed the worse it is for mother and 
child; anything beyond ten days is evil and a 
delay from the 260th to the 300th day is dan- 
gerous and probably fatal. The 304th day 
would, according to the periodic law, be the 
most disastrous period. 

Hence the external life begins in distress and 
weakness, as it begins in the Friday time of 
vitality — (though it is really the indispensable 
influence of a new life by oxygen) a large num- 
ber dying in the first month of birth. That 
Friday time is a much more serious danger 
than a battlefield or most attacks of fever if 
rightly treated. 

The exterior life is then at its beginning or 
Sunday period, a period of great weakness at 
first, handicapped by the sudden loss of sup- 
port from maternal vitality. Thus great ex- 
haustion is precipitated upon great weakness 
and nothing but the tenderest care keeps half 
the infants alive through the first five years. 

Why this should reappear through life at 
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the same day of the month, science cannot 
fully explain at present, but we know that 
there is a common law of periodicity in" 1 dis- 
ease. Hay fever is very punctual in its re- 
turns and many other constitutional affec- 
tions are liable to recurrence. All we can do 
is to recognize the law as a fact—a fact that 
governs all worlds. 

The internal life gets through its Friday 
period and Saturday period in 104 days and 
in the third month or Sunday, intelligence be- 
gins to dawn where only rest and growth 
had been observed. 

In nine months or even 260 days, the Fri- 
day time comes to the external life, w T hile the 
internal life has gained substantial strength 
from its best periods, Monday, Tuesday and 
Wednesday. This is the time when the sup- 
port from the mother's breast must cease and 
the infant must learn to rely on other food — 
a critical change. To continue nursing longer 
than nine months is to overtax the mother, 
especially if she has any labor, and by sym- 
pathy injure the child. Neither gestation nor 
nursing can run into the Friday period with 
impunity. The nine month law or Friday 
law must be obeyed. 

We may infer that at first when our mother 
drops us and at our second Friday period she 
weans us the cause is sufficient, but why 
does it come regularly at that time. 
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Sunday birth anniversaries must be associ- 
ated with Friday anniversaries of exhaustion 
from the loss of mother. Hence our birth 
periods are not auspicious, but require care, 
rest and protection, and birthdays should 
never be celebrated with any extravagance 
but should be pleasant, social occasions, to 
receive marks of friendship and affection, 
avoiding drunken revelry, or exposure and 
catching cold. 

Like other unlucky times it should be shel- 
tered by all possible prudence and friendship. 
It is no time for bold enterprises, for the vital 
force is not well sustained, according to per- 
iodic law. 

The period of gestation or intra-uterine life 
is a period of benevolence from the maternal 
constitution, in which the foundation of lon- 
gevity is laid. The elephant has almost two 
years of gestation and two years of suckling 
infancy and his constitution is so built up that 
he even exceeds man in longevity. Short lived 
animals have short periods of gestation and 
are very prolific, like the rabbit, which the ele- 
phant is not. 

It is with human life as with human enter- 
prises, which are in their most delicate stage 
at their beginnings, and probably may follow 
the human laws of periodicity, but that ques- 
tion I have not practically tested. Yet in ref- 
erence to this republic the human law has 

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been and will again be verified early in the 
20th century. 

The practical inference from the study of 
vital periodicity is that we should be ex- 
tremely careful of our health in the 40th year 
of life as well as the forty-first for it is the 
forty-first after conception — and in the third 
and fourth months after the Friday period 
of the year — that is — beginning three months 
later, and lasting 52 days— the worst day be- 
ing about the 134th from the beginning of 
Friday time of our external life. Thuf our 
Friday vital deficiency reappears at the three 
months later than the Friday time of our ex- 
ternal relations or sun periods and runs for 
52 days. 

Having arrived at this conclusion by pe- 
riodicity for myself I learned that it was con- 
firmed by astrology — and thus periodicity 
and astrology put me in an unfavorable con- 
dition in- December and January 1896-7, 
which I am now verifying in great debility 
but taking great care. Thus as the Sunday 
period of day life, which with me commences 
Dec. 11, is handicapped by the arrival at the 
same time of the Friday period of internal 
life — it must require especial caution in avoid- 
ing exposure or heavy taxation. 

The reader will understand that the three 
months difference between exterior and inter- 
ior periods correspond nearly to two sep- 

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timal periods of the year, which enables the 
first day of the vital Friday to correspond to 
the first exterior Sunday and its last to reach 
the exterior Monday. 

Another valuable inference is that sunrise 
and the vernal equinox or sunrise of the year 
are critical periods like our birth days. The 
lassitude of the vernal equinox is sometimes 
jocosely called the spring fever, and suggests 
the idea of taking a little medicine to help the 
constitution. 

I attach great hygienic importance to the 
suggestion of protecting our early morning 
hours. As the evening and afternoon periods, 
dating from the origin of life have a closer re- 
lation to vitality and longevity, they deserve 
more attention in that respect. Hence we 
may say that early morning work is more ex- 
hausting and ultimately more injurious than 
night work. I do not believe that indoor oc- 
cupations running to midnight or later are so 
unfavorable to life as occupations that begin 
before sunrise. Night occupations require the 
exclusion of outside influences which depend 
on the course of the sun and early morning 
occupations should be protected from the 
*arly morning fogs and malaria and especially 
from early morning hunger. Breakfast should 
be an early and invigorating meal of warm 
food. Hungry exhaustion before breakfast 
may be opposed by the custom in some coun- 

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tries of having tea at six and a supper at nine. 
A similar object is attained by having a sub- 
stantial dinner quite late, from five to nine. 
The tendency of the fashion has been to make 
the dinner more and more late. An interval 
of twelve hours between the evening and 
morning nourishment is too long. 

In the Friday period of long life, 70 to 84, 
(especially 82-83) there is a partial protec- 
tion in the fact that the Wednesday vital per- 
iod is present. 

It also follows as the vital period is nine 
months earlier that in reference to health the 
evil time may appear nine months earlier than 
in the day period, not in the Friday months 
of the 41st year but nine months earlier. 
Hence the beginning of the 41st year may be 
as unfavorable in some respects as its Friday 
months. The Friday months of day life re- 
late more to external relations and the Fri- 
day at the beginning of the year to personal 
conditions. 



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ClIAP 7_THE FORTNIGHTLY PERIODS 
OF A LONG LIFE. 

Long lives require a longer rule but do riot suppress the 
short rule— Second cycle a real improvement and 
progress, but a ddine in earthly external affairs— 
The & long scale to 99— When decline begins— The au- 
tumnal period— The winter after 77— The long crisis 
80 to 82— The long scale corresponds to universal 
experience— Lessons from tables of mortality— D ath 
our best frit nd. 

Any failure to realize some adversity in the 
list year, which rarely occurs, may have an 
explanation aside from interference of others 
or astrological reasons referring to distant 
periods, it was iorced on my attention in 
the case of Judge A. and ascribed to the 
strength of his constitution which gave him 
a long life. This led me to consider the des- 
tiny of those who occupy two cycles. If we 
consider the septiraal division of a life attain- 
ing two cycles a life of ninety-eight or a hun- 
dred years, it leads to an important principle 
which at first I had overlooked, supposing 
the second cycle would be an improvement on 
the first, as' Monday is an improvement on 
Sunday, and if the second cycle leads to the 
higher "world the great improvement is mani- 
fest, but if it is merely an extension of earth 
life, it requires us to consider the entire life as 

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a unit, subject to septimal division, and the 
result of such a mode of analysis corresponds 
with the well known facts of life^as the last 
forty-nine years must be greatly inferior in 
energy and success to the first forty-nine. 

Supposing two cycles or ninety-eight years 
to be about the normal extent of the healthy 
life, which is seldom reached or exceeded, but 
which may be attained when the world is civ- 
ilized, its septimal division gives us thedouble 
seven, the fourteen years or fortnightly pe- 
riod, and places a great decline after seventy 
years. Thus : 

Sunday— 1 to 14. 

Monday— 14 to 28. 

Tuesday— 28 to 42. 

Wednesday— 42 to 56. 

Thursday— 56 to 70. 

Fridav— 70 to 84. 

Saturday— 84 to 98. 

In this arrangement the first twenty-one 
years are evidently the auspicious beginning, 
in which we receive the endowment of all we 
have, through Sunday and the best half of 
Monday, by birth, nurture and education. 
The period of most vigorous struggle extends 
from the middle of Monday to the middle of 
Wednesday, from twenty-one to forty-nine — 
the middle of life, when the period of a gentle 
decline begins, extending from forty-nine to 
fifty-six, when the decline becomes marked. 
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Thursday or fifty-six to seventy being the au- 
tumnal period compared to a year, v\ hen the 
harvest should be gathered, and as nature 
has no'new achievements or growths we can 
but hold on to our harvest and take care of 
it. At seventy the cool period or Friday be- 
gins, extending to eighty-four — nature no 
longer builds up new forces — the sun of life is 
withdrawing from us, passing the autumnal 
equinox. The fiery ardor of youth is gone. 
The energies exhausted by any labor have no 
foundation to draw upon — the cold winter 
approaching is oppressive to the old but be- 
comes more spiritual as earthly vitality de- 
clines. Our remnant of vitality must be pro- 
tected or it will soon be exhausted— such is 
my condition now. The decline of vitality 
precedes the external decline, and birth dates 
are a critical time. 

The Friday period, 70 to 84, brings its sixth 
crisis from eighty to eighty -two as eighty- two 
to eighty-four is the seventh or Saturday end, 
for in the long lite calculation we go by four- 
teens. Hence in my own case, born in 1814, 
my Friday period, seventy to eighty-four, ar- 
rives in 1884 to 1898 and comes to its crisis 
in my present, eighty-second year. As in the 
fortnightly calculation of a long life, the sep- 
timal periods would be not fifty-two but one 
hundred and four — hence from 104 to 208 
days prior to Dec. 11th, 1896, would be my 

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worst period, which would extend from May 
20 to Aug. 29, which I have fully verified. It 
was a dark period of financial trouble, incipi- 
ent paralysis and a little discord, and I realized 
how little sympathy a life devoted'/to scien- 
tific truth receives from the mankind of this 
world and how desirable a higher home has 
become. 

I may pass through this crisis into the Sat- 
urday end cf the fourteen year period, but I 
have no expectation of completing the Satur- 
day period, as the Friday period has nearly 
exhausted me, unless my reinforcement from 
the higher world should be truly marvelous. 
I realize daily that they are sustaining me, 
and their responsive sounds when I lie down, 
or when I write or think anything that spec- 
ially pleases them assures me of guardianship. 
They tell me that too that writing this little 
book was a wise undertaking, as it is not too 
far from common life. The Saturday end, 
1896 to 1898, has its favorable vital time in 
the summer, which may sustain me through 
the year. 

Certainly this fortnightly view of a double 
cycle or fully developed life corresponds with 
the usual experience of mankind — very few 
have much energy after eighty. Neither Bis- 
marck or Gladstone are their country'sjead- 
ers. 

Life is in fts most critical time at birth 
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but improves so that those who have lived to 
ten have a much better prospect than those 
just born. The prospect of life has increased 
ten } ? ears and one month by the Carlisle table 
and fourteen years seven months by the 
Northampton table. 

The mean duration of life at seventy years 
from the reports of twenty offices is eight 
and a half years, a little over the first halt of 
the Friday period. At eighty it is four and 
three-quarters years, a few months beyond 
the end of the Friday period. At ninety it is 
two years and a third. Thus at the begin- 
ning of our Friday period we may expect to 
realize seventeen twenth-eighths of the pe- 
riod, but if we live ten years longer may 
reach the end of it. In the decimal periods, 
from ten years onward, the viability or pros- 
pect of life decreases with some regularity. 
Thus if at the age of ten there is a probability 
of living fifty years longer, at the age of 
twenty we should expect only forty-two 
years more. The reserve force or possible 
longevity, wdiich at twent} T is estimated as 
good for forty-two j r ears, declines so that 
at the beginning of the Friday period, at the 
age of seven ty, the viability is only eight 
years and a half— thus life continually declines 
from its first full development. It rises to its 
maximum in the first three periods, which are 
the most favorable of all, and declines until 

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it is exhausted. But the table shows that 
those who have attained an advanced age had 
a much greater original vitality than those 
who have not survived. 

Such is the history of the periods of earth 
life. But man has an eternal life, and the sec- 
ond cycle, thougit is a decline as to the earth, 
is a progress as to his eternal life — an increase 
in wisdom, in the development of his soul, in 
the control of his passions, and if he has lived 
rightly, in the maturity of his happiness. He 
should then be ready to depart at the end of 
his century to the better life unless he has 
some grand work for humanity to complete. 
The angel of death is his best friend. 



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Chap. 8-PERIODICITY OF IMMORTAL 
LIFE AND PARENTAL INFLUENCES. 

Periodicity is evolution, or progress to a higher career — 
Earthly misfortunes of life help the higher life — We 
are snatched away from a mismanaged life — A life 
ruled from above is not snatched away — Great life a 
possibility — New aspects and sources of life, the 
spirit and the sun — Sunrise and sunset and the equi- 
nox — Heaven comes as earth recedes — Earth life year 
— December 8 to January 29 its dark period — Life at 
the equator — The calendar year — Showing sun life- 
Statistics of suicide illustrate periodicity — External 
periods belong to the animal nature — Very interesting 
statistics — Philosophy of heat and cold in climates — 
Life from the spirit world differs from sun life — Won- 
derful relations of the two lives explained — Practical 
inference — Lessons from the two forces — Cause of 
the jolly night time— The proper bedtime — Dangers of 
the night. 

Effect of marriage at different ages of offspring— Rela- 
tions of parents and offspring. 



The periodicity that surveys mortal life in 
periods of seven or fourteen years is not the 
whole periodicity of man. 

The fundamental conception of periodic- 
ity is evolution or continual progress with 
variation and subsidence as in wave-like mo- 
tion — Sundays of commencement continually 
receiving for new progress as well as the use 
and full of Mondays and Fridays. Monday 
and Tuesday the crest of the wave — Friday 
the valley between waves. 

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The 98 years in 14 periods represent an 
earthly career coming to its end when over- 
powered by adverse influences. But when 
the career is ended a higher career begins and 
the whole progress of life is toward that 
higher career in another sphere of progression 
and the two careers widely differ. 

That which seems the misfortune of the 
earthly career, breaking it down, is an intro- 
duction to the higher career, and may there- 
fore be considered in one sense a blessing. 
The sickness in which earth fades from our 
sight is the dawning of a higher life, an easy 
transfer. It may be compared to the decay 
and bursting the seed in the cold ground 
which enables the plant to reach sunshine 
and developes its flower — yes and that plant 
goes on as it falls in frost to a higher spirit- 
ual life. 

The second cycle I regarded as an improve- 
ment on the first by the law of progress, but 
the second cycle leads to death and diminishes 
our capacities for earth life. In the earthly 
view it may seem unfortunate as a decline — 
but in a larger view it is a higher develop- 
ment or unfoldment of wisdom and nearer 
approach to our highest life. 

Thus the decline of the earthly being the 
advance of the heavenly, progress is the con- 
tinual law — from the things of earth in battle 
and toil to things of heaven in peace and joy. 
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The convulsive struggles of earth life re- 
lease us more promptly, and the benevolent 
angel of death takes us out of suffering, but 
a life blessed by closer relations to the higher 
world has a more pleasant and healthful pro- 
gress and does not need to be snatched away 
from earthly toils until the normal end of 
earth life for animal as well as vegetable life 
has a normal limit. Yet it would seem 
there might come an ampler development of 
humanity which might, like the trees of a 
thousand years deep rooted in earth, and ex- 
panded to the sky live through the centuries. 

TWO LIVES. 

Alan has two lives, temporal and eternal, 
or rather two aspects of life. 

One is visible, the other invisible. One is il- 
luminated by the visible sun — the other by 
the invisible spirit. 

The one flourishes in the sunshine and 
declines in its absence. Its two halves are di- 
vided by sunrise and sunset in each day — by 
the vernal and autumnal equinox in each 
year. 

The invisible life comes in as the visible de- 
clines. It overhangs the hours of darkness 
on earth, and occupies the "night-side of 
Nature. " ItGover arches the wintry half of 
the year. It comes nearer as the terrestrial 
life recedes, and when the terrestrial life is 

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gene the spiritual life is in its glory, and the 
farther it extends away from the terrestual 
sphere the more glorious it becomes. Earth 
life is like a morning to prepare for the heav- 
enly life. 

When earth life sinks in calamity we may, 
if we will, approach nearer the heavenly life. 

It is one of the blessings of sickness and 
calamities that as we surrender our physical 
forces and passions we may cultivate the 
nobler sentiments and acquire patience and 
humility. 

The earth life, beginning its day at sunrise, 
which ends at sunset, reaches its Zenith of 
the year in the summer solstice, June 22d, 
and its Nadir at the winter solstice, Dec. 
25th, wdien nature withholds all supplies of 
life, but reaches its evil Friday period near its 
end, 104 days before the vernal equinox and 
extends from December 8 to January 29 — its 
Saturday from Jan. 29 to March 22. This is 
the most spiritual period as shown by the rec- 
ord of suicides in San Francisco. From Dec. 
8 to Jan. 29 is a spiritual period, but it is the 
the suspension of all vegetable life. Nature 
then gives man no assistance. 

Thus in the earthlv or business like view of 
j 

annual periodicity its most evil period is the 
period of spiritual life. The heavenly and the 
earthly life are widely different and the rich 
man has rather a poor prospect in heaven. 
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But there is a view of life which corres- 
ponds nearly with our calendar year, as it be- 
gins properly at Dec. 25, the winter solstice. 

As the differences of a few days is not very im- 
portant, we may count by the calendar year 
for convenience, which is six days in advance, 
and deduct six : 

Sunday— to Feb. 21. 

Monday — to April 14. 

Tuesday— June 5. 

Wednesday— July 27. 

Thursday — Sept. 17. 

Friday — Nov. 8. 

Saturday— Dec. 31. 

At the equator there is no division of the 
year into terrestrial and spiritual halves. It 
is all terrestrial, and the only spiritual relief 
from day life is in its nights, which vary little 
from the half of 24 hours. 

This indicates a fullness of animal life in 
tropical regions and probable predominance 
of the animal nature, which is certainly re- 
alized in Central Africa and in some cannibal 
islands, but this may be counteracted by the 
superior nervous susceptibility of hot cli- 
mates — making the nightly visits of spiritual 
beings more easy. 

The evil effects of tropical climates appear 
in the lowlands and not in the mountains. 

These principles are further illustrated by 
the periodicity of suicide, crime and insanity. 

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Suicidal periodicity. 

The statistics of suicide in San Francisco, 
as given by the Health Department reports 
of 1896, correspond with the law of periodi- 
city. For this calculation which relates to 
the spiritual condition of man, the year may 
be regarded as beginning at the winter sol- 
stice, or return of the higher powers, be- 
ginning Dec. 25, which ancient nations cele- 
brated as the birth of the year— or on the 
first of January, which is six days later. 

The first six months to the end of June 
would correspond to three and a half periods, 
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and the first half 
of Wednesday. This is the whole favorable 
half of the vital period. The second six 
mouths from June to January, would corres- 
pond to the unfavorable half, Thursday, Fri- 
day and Saturday, with the last half of 
Wednesday. 

The first or favorable vital half had but fif- 
ty-eight suicides and the second half had 
ninety-four, thus the animal spirits rise as the 
sun is approaching and fall as it goes away. 
In the last three months of the year as it 
ends, the sun has gone far away and the sui- 
cides were forty-six, but when the new year 
began, the sun coming north, the suicides fell 
from from forty-six to eighteen — the last three 
months being twice as evil as the first three. 
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Friday and Saturday were two and a half 
times as evil as Sunday and Monday. 

The beginning is far better than the ending. 

So it is in human life. The first twenty- 
eight years or fortnightly Sunday and Mon- 
day of along life are far superior to Friday 
and Saturday or 70 to 98. 

The external periods of material life seem to 
belong to the animal nature; as the internal 
or vital periods belong to the spiritual na- 
ture, and English statistics published by Dr. 
Laycock of the York Dispensary, confirm 
this, as they show the maximum number of 
suicides in summer, minimum in winter. The 
deaths from drunkenness at London reached 
their maximum in summer, minimum in win- 
ter. The cases of insanity reached their max- 
imum in June and July, their minimum in De- 
cember and January, The crimes against 
persons reached their maximum in June, 
their minimum in January. But the with- 
drawal of the sun in winter makes it a Fri- 
day period ior animal life and shows an in- 
creased number of deaths in Belgian sta- 
tistics. 

Thus it seems that the more the animal na- 
ture flourishes under the patronage of the 
sun, the more it overpowers the spiritual na- 
ture of interior life. This seems to be verified 
also in nations, as the people of the North 
Temperate Zone have generally a higher mor- 

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ality than those nearer the tropics, and Jhave 
conquered them in conflict; The Greenlanders 
contrast favorably with the people of Daho- 
mey, who seem the vilest specimens of human- 
ity the world has erer produced, vastly infer- 
ior to the Kaffirs of South Africa, and the 
Swedes and Norwegians compare favorably 
with the Italians— the Scotch with the Eng- 
lish. The tigers, lions and poisonous ser- 
pents of tropical regions which cause so great 
a loss of life in India, have no correspondence 
in northern climes, and the Thugs of India and 
cannibals of Pacific islands have no anal- 
ogues in the north. 

The sun born luxury and influence of hot 
climates seem less favorable to virtue and 
health than the wintry influence of northern 
climates. The greatest mass of corruption 
and crime of ancient Europe was in Rome 
and around the Mediterranean— in Spain and 
the Barbary Coast of Africa. Bonaparte, 
Caeesar, Scipio, Hannibal, Alexander the Great 
and the Roman Emperors belonged to that 
region— so did the warlike Jews and the mod- 
ern Turks. 

Heat is essential to animal life, but in excess 
is destructive like all other manifestations of 
animal force. Its worst effects are produced 
in combination with water. Warmth, and 
moisture promote putrefaction and malaria, 
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originating malignant fevers. Whatever pro- 
motes decomposition is unfriendly to life. 
Where warmth and moisture abound evap- 
oration produces a negative condition ex- 
hausting to life, which is common in summer 
and favors suicide. Diseases increase a few 
days after rains. Life is more vigorous and 
active in a dry atmosphere which retains the 
warmth and electricity of the body which 
water rapidly conducts away producing lan- 
guor and debility. Heat and moisture com- 
bined produce sunstroke. A cold climate 
protects the constitution by freezing out the 
water of the atmosphere thus protecting us 
against a debilitating influence and acting as 
an antiseptic which protects life like anti- 
septic medicines. 

Thus we perceive why cool climates, frosty 
nights and mountain heights are beneficial to 
life and sustain the spiritual nature which is 
life. The highest development of humanity 
is in the mountains. Switzerland and Norway 
lead in Europe and Scotland in Great Britain. 
The Alleghanies and Rocky mountain region 
are superior to the sea coasts and river 
valleys. 

Of our two lives one is drawn from the 
earth — the other from heaven. One is sus- 
tained by food, air and sunshine as long as 
they are necessary. The other comes from 

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the great fountain of life which invigorates 
the human race. It comes to us through our 
parents. One is transient, the other eternal. 
Prenatal science shows that the interior vital 
force which originated from the spirit world 
has different periods from the exterior or sun 
force. 

The life force, which dates from conception, 
reaches its minimum or Friday period at 
birth or just before it. Birth or entrance 
upon exterior life and sunshine corresponds 
to sunrise. The approach of birth being like 
the approach of day — an unfortunate trans- 
fer of life from dependence, on life to depend- 
ence on food. 

Consequently the life force is to the day 
force as Friday to Sunday — two periods in 
its year. The beginning of the day is necessa- 
rily the low period of the life force, for life has 
been inactive in the night, and the 12 hours 
past, from six or seven at night to six or 
seven a.m. produces a lowering of vital force. 
Hence the breakfast should be taken immedi- 
ately on rising. It was a custom in Lou- 
isiana to ward off fevers by taking a cup of 
coffee with a lemon in bed before rising, which 
has a restorative effect on the liver. 

When the wife rises early to make the fire 
and prepare breakfast for the family she is 
unduly taxed. Hygienic wisdom would sug- 
gest that the fire should be prepared at night, 

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needing only a mateh to start it in the morn- 
ing. The breakfast too should be prepared 
and placed on the table at night, so that a 
lamp could in a few minutes warm the coffee, 
tea or meat in the morning. Morning tasks 
on rising are very^ injurious to delicate consti- 
tutions. The lamp chimney with a cross 
( sold in the shops ) or even a pair of scissors 
on its top is sometimes effectual for the little 
cooking ot a small family. But good food is 
very necessary in the morning — a substantial 
breakfast. 

As the vital hours follow the day hours two 
periods behind, this fact gives us the new 
light on periodicity which I have recently dis- 
covered. 

The day force is in its Monday maximum 
from half past nine to one, but this is only 
the Saturday period of the life force. The 
Tuesday period from, from one to half past 
four is but the Sunday period of the life force, 
and its Monday period begins about 4.20 
— its Monday and Tuesday periods reach- 
ing to half past eleven p. m. 

These vital periods become more important 
in proportion as the day force declines in its 
Friday periods or in advanced life and I have 
lately realized it. As my day force or earth 
life has declined in advanced age I have to 
rely on the life force and find myself accord- 
ingly extremely weak and unfit for any duty 
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in the morning hours, when the life force is in 
Friday and the Sunday day force in its Fri- 
day-year, so that I have to lie down after 
breakfast. My vitality increases with the 
day's progress and from four to nine I am 
competent to intellectual labor, owing to the 
Monday and Tuesday of the life force and 
Wednesday and Thursday of the day force. 

I find it best to stop at nine in the first half 
of the Tuesday vitality as the day force is 
then in its Thursday decline and longer con- 
tinuance would increase the morning weak- 
ness. 

The vitality of the human race carries them 
every day beyond the limits natural to the day- 
force, producing vigor late in the afternoon 
when the sun power is declining, and carrying 
them far into protects the night's cold nega- 
tive hours. 

Instead of using the daylight of early morn- 
ing hours at and before sunrise they prolong 
the active day far in the night, and from five 
to ten p. m. is perhaps the most active and 
jolly period in the 24 hours. The Wednesday 
period of vitality, extending from half past 
eleven to three, is a favorite time among fash- 
ionables, although it is a Friday period of 
day life aud therefore should be avoided. But 
such dissipation may be endured by those 
who have a great life force, though it would 
be destructive to those who have not. 
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v It is the common impression of n prudent 
people that our habits should be regulated as 
the sun indicates — that our labors should 
slacken and end in the afternoon, the night 
given to refreshing society or amusement and 
an early retirement, very little beyond eight, 
never later later than nine, which is the aver- 
age end of the Wednesday period. Eleven 
thirty is considered a very late hour, and it 
is, for it reaches the Friday limit of the day 
force and all after night is in the declining 
Thursday period. Early retirement is neces- 
sary for those who have not a strong vi- 
tality. 

Nine o'clock is a judicious limit to protect 
the day force, but a great many disregard it 
for the reasons given that we have an in- 
terior life force which may carry us beyond 
the sun limits, and those who are largety en- 
dowed with it may indulge in nocturnal 
hours, but no one should do this in whom 
life has been weakened by its Friday periods, 
whatever he may have done under twenty- 
five. Nor should children ever go beyond the 
limits of the day force for they are in the 
weakness of the Sunday period and should 
go to bed at eight and not rise earlier than 
seven. 

These principles show us the dangers of 
the nocturnal revelry of the profligate even if 
intemperance and sensuality are excluded, for 

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the latter half of the night is not fit for ac* 
tion and must be given to rest and restora- 
tion. The sun born power comes to its Fri- 
day time at midnight and the vital or spirit 
power at sunrise, consequently the hours af- 
ter midnight are the feeblest of all and these 
are hours when disease invades and reveals 
a morning patient. The majority of the at- 
tacks of cholera occur after midnight and 
this is the time when malaria takes effect on 
those who sleep too near the ground or in 
unwholesome apartments and when flimsily 
built houses expose the sleeper to a chill be- 
fore he rises. The ventilation fad admits the 
night air even when malarious, which is never 
needed in a spacious apartment. 

Prenatal Periodicity. 

The relation of parents and offspring runs 
through several septimal periods. 

Counting backwards before our birth we 
find seven years of Saturday in which procre- 
ation by a parent is impossible. 

Then seven years of Friday period presents 
7 to 14 years of age in which procreation 
should not be allowed though quite possible 
in warm climates. A Friday relation is un- 
fortunate and does not give the energy nec- 
essary to proper development. The feebleness 
of the Hindoo race is probably due to their 
very early marriages. 

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From 14 to 21 in the parent is a Thursday 
relation to us. Such parents are better than 
the Friday elass but have not the strength 
maturity and wisdom for the parental of- 
fice. But the offspring of very early marri- 
ages arc in a very friendly Monday or Tues- 
day relation to parents and disposed to be 
amiable. 

But older parents produce more energetic 
children and are more competent to take care 
of them. 

The Wednesday period, 21 to 28, is one of 
equilibrium in the moral and physical energies 
— so is the Monday period, 35 to 42. But 
these periods give more energy than geniality 
in the offspring. They are harder to govern 
but receive the affectionate care of mature 
and considerate parents. Older men are kind 
and considerate to young children and young 
wives, but the wives sometimes neglect them 
and the children may be self willed, hence the 
first born or oldest children are the favorites 
and the law of primogeniture gi\xs them an 
advantage in inheritance. 

The common experience of mankind cor- 
responds with these principles. 



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Chap. 9-YEAR AND DAY COMPARED. 

The day hours, the week days and the seven yearly di- 
visions compared — All hours of the day explained — 
Importance of morning rest — Calculations applied 
to the year and my own experience. 



If we take the progress of a year or the 
progress of a day, in the external or sun life, 
under the septimal division, the results corres- 
pond to universal experience. 

Thus let the day begin on an average at 6 
A. m. and we will find -its progress corres- 
ponds to our law, as follows, the periods be- 
ing 3 hours and 26 minutes. 

Sunday— 6 to 9:26. 

Monday— to 12:52. 

Tuesday — to 4:18. 

Wednesday— to 7:44. 

Thursday— 11:10. 

Friday— to 2:36. 

Saturday— to 6. 

The first morning hoxirs are not vigorous, 
they are for preparation of food and dress with 
youthful freshness. Delicate constitutions 
are feeble in the morning hours, but acquire 
strength after the digestion of breakfast. 
Early rising is not beneficial to the delicate. 
The atmosphere needs the vitalizing influence 
of the sun, and dispersion of fogs and ma- 
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laria. From nine to one is the period of 
greatest efficiency, the Monday period, the 
sun is then giving its best service. The after- 
noon or Tuesday is not quite equal to the 
forenoon for business, and the sun is often op- 
pressive in warm weather. The Wednesday 
period from four to eight is less favorable and 
6 p. m. is a proper time to stop, the sun is 
then withdrawing its support. From 8 to 
11, the Thursday period, fatigue is the rule, 
the sun no longer stimulates and the malaria 
is settling, we need the protection of a roof, 
and the refreshing influence of society and 
amusement. This corresponds to the Thurs- 
day autumnal period of the year and the 
Thursday decline of life, from fifty-six to 70, 
when we realize the need of rest from ardu- 
ous duties. 

At 11 the sun is far gone, shelter is indis- 
pensible, the weather colder and malaria 
more abundant — this begins the Friday per- 
iod, when all occupation must be suspended, 
and every protection brought around us, and 
corresponds to the winter, which is the Fri- 
day period of the year and to the cool old 
age from 70 to 8i, the Friday period of life, 
when the utmost care and abundant rest be- 
come necessary. 

The midnight hours are unfriendly; the prof- 
ligate, the thief, the burglar and assassin are 
abroad and good people are at home. The 
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night service of physicians and nurses is 
doubly taxing to the constitution and it is 
recorded that the officer in Spain who sought 
to escape the heat of the day by marching his 
men at night increased their mortality. 

In our Friday years the spirit may be 
strong but the body is not, as I am now real- 
izing. 

So in the Friday hours of night, which must 
be devoted to rest, the spirit may be eman- 
cipated in visions and our guardian angels 
may be near. 

But the succeeding period is more hopeful, 
the Saturday period of night, from 3 to 6, is 
a more spiritual period. It corresponds to 
the ante-natal period when a new life is ma- 
turing and the protective love of a mother 
is developing it. So in the early hours a new 
life is coming in the body for it has grown 
and is growing, the blood has become puri- 
fied and the stock of oxygen assimilated, the 
excreta are ready for removal and the brain 
has recovered from fatigue. Now is the time 
when we receive the influx from guardian an- 
gels and the universal spiritual element of na- 
ture, and visions or presentiments revealing 
the truth are often granted. If we are of a 
spiritual temperament our invisible friends 
often make their presence sensible by sounds 
or perhaps respond to our thoughts; thus the 
new life approaches that is born at sunrise. 
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The ante-natal period before sunrise for 
three hours ought to be sacred to the restor- 
ation of life, a great deal of nervous exhaus- 
tion and great loss of brain power are pro- 
duced by rising at dawn or before day break, 
as it is practiced by many farmers and their 
wives, it is in this way as much as by long 
hours and night work that constitutions are 
exhausted and premature age brought on, 
with feebleness of brain. This lesson is en- 
forced by the vital view that sunrise is the 
weakest period of the 24 hours in natural vi- 
tality. 

The common sense and experience of man- 
kind have taught all judicious people to give 
rest to the Thursday hours of the day and to 
the Thursday years of life, and to protect not 
only the Friday hours of night but the Fri- 
day season of the year, the pitiless winter 
when the sun is withdrawn, and the benefi- 
cence of nature suspended. 
I When the renovating power of nature is 
suspended in the winter period of human life 
we approach the end of the year or the end of 
life. 

There is then a brief interval, the ending 
before a beginning, when in Saturday the 
foundation is laid of a new life, a new career. 

This may come at the end of the first cycle, 
between 42 and 49, and if it comes then as it 
does to manv, the new life of the second cy- 
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cle is a vast improvement on the first, for the 
second ought to be better than the first as 
Monday is better than Sunday, it is the be- 
ginning of a higher life free from the toils and 
suffering of earth, 

But if the normal strength of the human 
constitution exists and is well managed, the 
new life comes after the Friday period is 
ended, between 84 and 98, when we go rich 
in experience to our higher home. 

These things have been realized in my own 
life, but I have not from time to time pres- 
erved the memoranda. 

It was in the Monday period of my entire life 
that I mastered the problems of the brain 
and the sciences of psychometry and sarcog- 
nomy were completed by 1842, my 28th year. 

In my Tuesday period, from 1842 to 1856, 1 
had my medical career and stood at the head of 
a flourishing medical college at Cincinnati, 
but the discord in the Friday of the first cycle 
came in at its close when I retired. 

My Wednesday, from 1856 to 1870, was 
much less satisfactory, being one of irregular 
success in uncongenial surroundings, with 
financial success and financial misfortune, 
but offering an opportunity for political dis- 
tiction, which I did not accept as it was for- 
eign to my aims, though I might have reached 
a very honorable position. The opportunity 
came at the beginning of my second cycle 
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and might have been a distinguished period 
if I had pursued it with energy. 

My^Thursday period, from 1870 to 1884, 
had no satisfactory success, financial misfor- 
tunes came in, collegiate schemes had to be 
abandoned, my publications had but moder- 
erate success. 

In my Friday period, from 1884 to 1898, my 
finances dwindled down toward poverty, my 
gifted wife passed away, and my constitution 
gave way to vital and atmospheric malaria, 
and from spinal exhaustion as the conse- 
quence of a fall, in an evil year. I was for 
some years not capable of more than half my 
proper labor. Yet with the aid of science I 
resisted all and kept up my mental vigor to 
a surprising extent, writing and speaking 
with such vigor that it was called robust vi- 
tality. Whether I can resist the periodic ten- 
dency to decline, many months is an urgent 
question now. 



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Chap. 10-PERIODICITY OF DAYS, 

MONTHS AND YEARS. 
Concords and discords— Laws of Mar- 
riage. 

The Genesis fable— Rest on Friday— -Septimal law ap- 
plied to our work days— Do we all observe Friday — 
When is our Friday — a discovery — How to find our 
week days and Fridays — Table to show every one 
his birthday — Coinciding years, months and da}-s— 
How to mateh in your associates — who will har- 
monize with you and who will find fault — Our mys- 
terious Friday antipathies— How they make mis- 
chief—How they are overcome— The laws applied to 
marriage— Relations of junior and senior— Relations 
of husbands and wives discussed— a complex ques- 
tion requiring study — Old men and young wives — 
Mature women and young men — A sure guide in the 
study of character— Advices for husbands. 

The human brain explained. A brief synopsis of the 
true science of the brain, showing what to seek 
and what to avoid, and a wonderful secret for pos- 
terity. 

According to the septimal law every seven 
day period produces a degree of exhaustion 
by labor or exertion wich makes rest neces* 
sary. 

The old fable of Genesis, which the church 
in the early centuries regarded as an allegory 
or^ fable but becoming m )re superstitious, 
accepted as history, represented God as being 
so fatigued on Friday as to rest on Satur- 
day, which was therefore made a Sabbath. 
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But it would be more reasonable to rest on 
Friday, the day of fatigue on which we are 
less qualified to gain success in anything. I 
therefore advise all to take rest for soul and 
body' and avoid all risks and heavy respons- 
ibilities or new enterprises or exposures on 
their Friday days, Friday months and Friday 
years; but from want of energetic fore- 
thought, expecting to pass through my 
double Friday from seventy to eighty-four, 
I have alloud my great responsibilities "in 
recording my scientific discoveries to accum- 
ulate on this period, and now in its most 
critical portion which is the eighty-second 
year, I am suffering from great prostation 
and am unfitted for completing my work but 
possibly able, after passing the eighty-second 
year to have a slight improvement in the 
eighty-third year which begins my Saturday. 

In applying the septimal laws to the days 
of the week, we would of course advise any 
one to be careful on Friday, a principle so of- 
ten verified as to seem true, but at length I 
have found a very intelligent and observant 
lady who maintained that Friday was her 
best day for action and Tuesday her best day 
for rest; this implied that her native week 
days did not correspond to the calendar days r 
that her Sunday and Friday were not the 
Sunday and Friday of the CMenclfir. 

If Friday was her best day, her week may 
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have begun on Wednesday or Thursday; 
these- being her first day or Sunday would 
make Friday a good day Monday. If born 
on Thursday, Friday would be her Monday, 
and Tuesday her Friday. If born on Wed- 
nesday. Friday would be her Tuesday and 
Tuesday her Saturday. As she said Tuesday 
was her day for rest, unfit for any active 
business, I was sure she was born on Thurs- 
day, which would make Tuesday her Friday, 
Thursday being her Sunday. It is well for 
all persons to use the same vigilance as this 
intelligent lady, to find their lucky and un- 
lucky days, which were forced upon her 
attention so often as to compel her to rec- 
ognize them. Looking farther into her case 
I am convinced that I made a discovery and 
that she was actually born on Thursday 
though she had been told her birthday was 
Saturday. This discovery leads to the neces- 
sity in each case of ascertaining the week 
day which can be done from the following 
table. To enable one to select good and bad 
days from the day of his birth, I present the 
calculation of the relations of days. He who 
is born on Sunday will have his evil day for 
rest on Friday. v 

Monday brings its Friday on Saturday. 

Tuesday on Sunday. 

Wednesday on Monday. 

Thursday on Tuesday. 

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Friday on Wednesday. 

Saturday on Thursday. 

Sunday on Friday. 

This seems to be my experience, hence I 
infer I was born on Sunday and think I was 
once told so by a psychie. 

The same principle applies in reference to 
months and years. We do not place every- 
one as born in January, and locate his 
Friday months from October 1st to Novem- 
ber 19th, but find his actual birth and count 
his year from his birth date to the same day 
next year ; and as to his years we count from 
the year of his birth. 

If the reader would learn on what day of 
the week he was born, he can ascertain by 
referring to the table of years and days. 

Coincidence and Harmony. 

All who are born in the same year, not too 
far apart, have similar years of good and bad 
luck, and therefore a certain similarity and 
adaptability, but if they unite in business in 
their evil years they intensify their mis- 
fortunes, as both are unfortunate. If you 
select for an associate one whose good Mon- 
day or Tuesday period corresponds to your 
Friday, his good luck may save you if you 
let him take the lead, when you should rest; 
but if you should bring some man in his un- 
lucky year to manage in your good year, he 

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may spoil your success ; so you must not let 
him lead then and lead you into his bad luck. 

There is the harmony of similarity in those 
born in the same year, the same month and 
the same day. 

But when days, months and years differ, 
they may produce beneficent harmony or 
intolerable discord — a problem requiring 
much study fcr each individual, in which I 
may guide him by showing the law. 

Your young friend who is born seven to 
fourteen years or even seventeen years later 
than yourself is in a beneficent relation to 
you and predisposed to be friendly and may 
do you good. It is well for you to try him 
and see how far the relation is desirable if he 
is a proper person. 

Of course the periodic law does not change 
his character though it effects his relation to 
you. He may be poor, ignorant, diseased, 
miseducated, or otherwise unfortunate, but 
he will be better for you than another of the 
same sort born in your Friday years and 
months. 

When you enter into relations with a man 
or woman born in your Friday year, all may 
seem right, for others, but not be right for 
you. He is not born to be a blessing for you. 
He is probably disposed to find fault, to cens- 
ure and condemn your action and character, 
or he may prove an adverse element by being 
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engaged in something unpropitious for you, 
or in sympathizing with something that is 
discordant for you. 

I know, for example, that I have found my- 
self in a Friday relation with gentlemen of 
ability and merit, to whom I felt an intense 
repugnance, though they w 7 ere in many 
respects superior men, and entertained for me 
a considerable degree of esteem, which I could 
not fully reciprocate though I respected them 
highly. There was a real antagonism in our 
natures, expressed by the old verse: 

" I do not like thee Dr. Fell, 

"The reason why 1 cannot tell, 

11 But this I know and know full well — 

"1 do not like thee Dr. Fell." 

I have been acqutnted w r ith three ladies, 
they were superior women and had a high 
regard for me, as I had for them. One of 
them whose nature and purposes were for- 
eign and adverse to my own had a monthly 
date harmonious to my own, and hence w r as 
personally very congenial, though our life 
aims were entirely discordant. The other 
two had life aims entirely harmonious with 
mine, making the basis of a strong attach- 
ment on account of their virtues. But their 
month dates w r ere so discordant with mine, 
that it required much care on my part to 
avoid exciting the little unpleasantness and 
annoyance which comes from discordant 

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months. My monthly relation to them being 
as favorable as their relation was discordant, 
I was able with my harmonious relation to 
overcome their little irritability. 

In stich relations if the discordant party is 
the stronger, a rupture, dissatisfaction, or 
unhappiness will result, overpowering the 
friendly relation ; but if the friendly relation 
is stronger it will overpower the discord. 
A strong exalted character, following the 
example of Jesus Christ will overpower all 
discords, and a hostile Friday nature if very 
strong will crush the pleasant sentiments in 
those who would naturally be friendly. 

Suppose we apply this to marriage. A man 
who is thoroughly and entirely good in his 
nature will be beneficient to all who approach 
him, and a man thoroughly selfish, jealous, 
irritable and revengeful will be an unfortu- 
nate acquaintance for anybody. Periodicity 
does not annihilate characters but modifies 
relations. 

I could not advice a lady to marry a man 
in a discordant relation unless he were so 
thoroughly good that even his discords 
would not be formidable though they would 
be distinctly perceptible. 

The senior party generally has the advan- 
tage in matrimony. He is more disposed to 
dictate, to find fault or be dissatisfied though 
he may be polite enough to conceal it. * The 
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p junior is disposed to look on the other favor- 
> ably, to be pleased at first sight and to be 
generally partial. 

Men uniformly aim to be the senior party, 
and women submit to that arrangement, 
which increases their natural amiability to 
husbands, to whom they are inclined to look 
up, while men are not disposed to look up 
to their wives, This is seen in the forged 
Epistles of St. Paul manufactured by Cath- 
olic priests, in which women are required to 
look up to their husbands as children to 
parents or even as they would look up to 
Christ. St. Paul did write several epistles full 
of good sense and enthusiastic religion, but 
nothing derogatory to women. 

If your husband is of your own age that is 
a good relation. If he is six or even twelve 
months older it is not objectionable. But if 
he is from twelve to twenty-four months 
older that brings a little discord. You will 
be partial to him inclined to like his manners 
and if he is a good man that will satisfy him, 
but his ways and manners differ from yours, 
and he will look on you with a critical eye in 
the small matters of personal intercourse. 
If he is a good man this may not show itself 
distinctly but only negatively. If he is not 
good it will show itself unpleasantly and it 
will require care to please him. 

If he is three, four, five, six or seven years 
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older that will not make a discord, but five, 
six or seven is better than three or four. But 
in all these unfavorable dates just mentioned 
your amiability to him increases as his de- 
clines, so that if you are both good there is 
no trouble. 

But if he is between eight and nine years 
older look out— you will then be the concord 
and he the discord and if he is of a cold 
selfish or jealous nature his relation will bring 
his discord to the surface and as a strong pos- 
itive character he will be somewhat unsatis- 
factory or oppressive. He must be an uncom- 
monly good man if the 8 to 9 year relation 
does not spoil his charm. 

Beyond the ninth year, the older your hus- 
band is the better for you, if you love him. 
But from the eighth to the 14th year, he is 
not well born for you and you should be 
careful not to give him your affection till you 
have very thoroughly investigated and tested 
him, for he is in a Friday relation. But I do 
not deny that an entirely good man will be 
good even in a Friday relation, especially if 
you love him warmly. 

From 14 up to 42 years of seniority is a 
good relation for a husband — the older the 
better but when he is Tn the forties though he 
loves you, you may not love him and you 
must be cautious. It is not a good position 
for you to be forty years younger than your 
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husband, but if your fountain of love is fnll 
and flowing and he is good you maybe happy 
with him. Yet if you are easily annoyed or 
disgusted or irritated by a nature foreign to 
your own do not risk a discord. 

You are not apt to fall in love with a man 
35 to 42 years older than }-ourself but he is 
likely to love you at first sight and so you 
may reciprocate his love. 

On the other hand you are in danger of 
falling in love with a man who is not really 
in accord w T ith you, being in a Friday rela- 
tion, eight to nine years older, and so you 
may win him, but I would advise you to look 
sharp and let him do his share of the courting 
and make his love and his good temper con- 
spicuous before you trust him. Try his 
patience or amiability in advance. But if you 
wish to submit to a master and make your 
happiness by pleading him you may accept 
a Friday master. 

I knew of a lady who took an interest in a 
young man, had him educated and then mar- 
ried him happily. Of course he was devoted 
to his senior, and I would advise widows and 
mature woman to pick up young husbands 
when satisfied as to their character. I knew 
a lady who chose a husband at least twenty 
years younger than herself (perhaps thirty) 
her friends were all opposed to it, but I ap- 
proved it and it was a good match. 
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Men who marry step mothers, or mothers- 
in-law are generally good husbands, and if 
somewhat henpecked do not mind it, for they 
know how to respect age and experience. It 
is a good discipline for a man to have a wife 
he is compelled to respect, and rather a bad 
discipline to have a timid harmless wife whom 
he can neglect or snub or oppress with im- 
punity. If you have not enough self-respect 
or firmness and judgment to command the 
sincere respect of a man, you should let him 
alone, unless you wish to be a slave. 

But in all cases make sure of the depth and 
strength of a man's love before you surrender. 
Observe his deportment to his mother and 
sisters — if it is not satisfactory avoid him. 
Finally study him psychometrioally — if the 
impression you feel from one of his letters, 
not knowing who it is, is not satisfactory, 
let him alone. — The psychometric study of 
character, and howto train yourself in study- 
ing one you have not seen, is shown in my 
Manual of Psychometry, which gives every 
woman a safeguard against mistakes in mar- 
riage, if she will use it. 

When I advise a gentleman as to marriage 
I of course advice him to select one younger 
than himself or of his own age. If she is eight 
or nine years younger, it is a charming rela- 
tion if your natures are congenial. It is 
probable she will be so agreeable and yielding 
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as to spoil you or tempt you to be authorita- 
tive. Any where from one to eighteen years 
younger than yourself will be agreeable. 

But beyond eighteen years her affections 
will be less intense — there will be less unity, 
and if thirty-five to forty years younger I 
would not recommend her; you will not be 
adapted to her nature. 

If you are a modest and reasonable man 
with a high regard for women, you may do 
well in marrying a woman four to seven 
years older. But I would not recommend 
one two or three years older, and I would 
object decidedly to one nine years older: that 
is a discordant relation, unless you are deeply 
in love with her. Anywhere between eight 
and fifteen years of seniority is quite objec- 
tionable. She will be independent and differ- 
ent from you in her plans and wishes. It is 
even better beyond fifteen. Even thirty years 
of seniority will be beneficent if you love. A 
mature woman enjoys the life and freshness 
of a young man— and is disposed to give a 
maternal love, and if she is a well preserved 
woman you will not be ashamed of the con- 
trast of age. — She will be very faithful in sick- 
ness and watchful over your welfare. 

But the question of months is also im- 
portant. For that regulates the harmonies 
of manner and person. You should avoid a 
Friday relation in months, unless you are 
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r t*7 

good enough to Overcome it. A lady born 
over nine monthg later in the year than your- 
self is not rightly adapted to you. Thirty- 
seven weeks, ypSft days, is the beginning of 
the unfavorable period, and 45 weeks or &&}££$" 
days is its end. The very worst relation is 
304 days. You may arrive at it by counting 
backward. Shun any birthday that is from 
52 to 104 days earlier than your own — especi- 
ally one 60 days earlier. 

You may overcome such a discord by amia- 
bility and love, but unless well furnished in 
love, I would not advise you to try it. Thor- 
oughly good people can harmonize in spite 
of discordant relations in manners, owing to 
months or even discordant years, but others 
should not attempt it. A lady whose head is 
sufficiently elevated and symmetrically full on 
the upper surface will make any man happy 
and elevate his nature by her own elevation. 
If he is not a brute, she will greatly im- 
prove him. 

But if you are a really good man — a good 
lover you need not depend entirely on periodic 
harmonies, for you can overcome them. Of / 

course you will be happier with a harmony 
of periods but virtue triumphs over all such 
difficulties. And if you select a healthy com- 
panion with the proper head, all will prob- 
ably be well. Hence I give you the locations 
of the good qualities in a head that contri- 
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butes to human happiness. The brain is not 
indicated by bumps as the ignorant suppose, 
but by the form of the head. 

The human brain has its heavenly and its 
earthly region. One side looks up to God— 
the other looks down to this world of dead 
matter. — As we obey one or the other we go 
up or down — up toward God reaching heaven, 
down toward matter and force— toward 
passion and sensualitj, selfishness and 
wickedness, reaching hell — the hell of a grovel- 
ing beastly criminal nature, ready to destroy 
happiness or lives and then turn the pistol 
on his own brains and land in the hell of 
remorse in the spirit world. 

The lower brain is for the body— the upper 
brain for the soul. They in whom the upper 
brain rules absolutely — who never yield to 
passion or selfishness or animalism, are of a 
nature a kin to heaven, and are a blessing all 
around them; as the other class are a curse. 
Jesus Christ was the heavenly model of the 
higher class, and the rich men of today whom 
he excluded from heaven are often of the lower 
class, and they create by oppression a sim- 
ilar but w r orse lower class — the men whom 
injustice oppression and suffering have made 
miserable and desperate. 

The following synopsis of brain science 
has been demonstrated by experiment for 
fifty years, and is as positive as anything in 
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anatomy or physiology— being based on the 
anatomy of the brain. Without attempting 
to give the whole science I present all those 
qualities important in conjugal union. 

If the head is divided by a horizontal line 
from the middle of the forehead backward, 
all above that line gives noble and amiable 
qualities— all below, it gives animal force, 
temper and selfishness. If divided by a verti- 
cal line from the cavity of the ear upward, — 
all behind that line gives the strength and 
activity which make success. — The upper back 
head gives moral energy, the lower back head 
animal energy. 

The frontal half of the head gives the intel- 
lectual faculties and sensibilities, with the 
amiable and yielding moral qualities. 

The face gives at INT. intuitive and quick 
perception of everything, including human 
character. — The upper part of the face gives 
expression to all the amiable pleasing quali- 
ties. It is marked SOC. — social qualities. 
The lower part of the face, ANT. indicates 
antagonism, self-will and resentment. MEL. 
indicates melancholy or disposition to look 
on the unfavorable side of things in opposi- 
tion to CHE. Cheerfulness, which makes a 
gay happy nature. Physical warmth is indi- 
cated by prominence of the chin. RESP. 
Respiration, indicates activity of the lungs, 
the lower part gives deep respiration and a 

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eQwi 




J9 Qog? tZartJbft. 



Acq.uisitiveness 

Adh.esiveness 

Ali.mentiveness 

Am.ativeness 

Ant.agonism 

App.robativcness 

Arr.ogance 

B.E.N. Business 



Ben.evolence 
Caut.iousness 



Che.erfulness Ind.olence 
Com.bativeness Int.uitiou 
Comb.iuation Irr.itability 
Con.icientiousnessLove 
Dest.ructiveness Mel.ancholy 



Dig.nity 

Ene-rgy 

Fir.mness 

Har.niony 

Ideality 

Imagination 



Mod.esty 

Observation 

Ora.tory 

Pat.ience 

Pow.er Love of 

Resp.iration 



Ras.huets 
Rep.ose 
Rev.erence 
Rlv.alry 

Sen. si bili tv 
Social qualities 
S. Con. Self confi- 

deuce. 
Tnd •rstanding 
Vir.ilitv 
V.ital force 



strong voice. AM. signifies Amativeness, 
which is reinforced at VIR. Virility. ALL 
signifies Alimentiveness or interest in eating 
and if it is full, adjacent to the ear, a desire for 
stimulants or drink. If flat or withered at 
that spot it indicates temperance and inca- 
pacity for stimulants. 

In the temples, SEN. indicates sensibility 
and delicacy. It makes the person sensitive 
not only to language and manners, but to 
weather, to pain and to everything that 
affects comfort. Those in whom this is 
defective, the temples being hollow, do not 
take care of themselves but are liable to over- 
work and exposure. When interested they 
forget the body. MOD. is the region of mod- 
esty and courteous deference to others. In 
excess it makes bashfulness. IDE. Ideality is 
the source of literary taste and general refine- 
ment and love of beauty. 

IMA. is the seat of Imagination and love 
of the spiritual and marvelous. If large, with 
broad temples it produces mediumship. 

HAR. is the seat of social harmony and an 
obliging, polite disposition opposed to com- 
bativeness— COM. 

Pleasantry gives humorous and pleasing 
ideas— just above Und. (accidentally omitted 
in the engraving.) 

Tranquillity, opposed to Restlessness, is 
indicated between Cautiousness and Love. 
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*The intellect is in the forehead, but needs 
to be supported by the energies of the upper 
backhead, Self Confidence and Firmness. 

UND. is the region of general understand- 
ing and reasoning. OBS. of general observa- 
tion and accuracy. A broad forehead gives 
power in planning and scheming above, and 
Invention below — COMB. Language and 
music are just behind the eye and eyebrow. 

BEN Benevolence is opposed to selfish 
Acquisitiveness in the back head. The pos- 
terior part of it serves a friend heartily, the 
anterior part gives away freely. The central 
part of the upper surface of the head, LOVE 
makes a thoroughly lovely character. Who- 
ever has that will be lovely as husband or 
wife, and whoever is deficient in that will not 
give a great deal of happiness in marriage 
but maybe faithful to duties, if Conscientious- 
ness (CON.) is large, whoever has large Love 
and Conscientiousness will make a happy 
home. The whole central space is marked 
LOVE. It includes Hope and Religion which 
are nearly the same— one means Hopeful love 
and the other Reverential love. 

Serenity and mildness of temper is due to 
Patience— PAT. which is opposed to Irrita- 
bility IRR. The latter is the chief source of 
petty quarrels and fretfulness or anger and 
alienation of feeling— a very dangerous ele- 
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rnent in marriage. Patience and^Firmness 
should be higher on the outline of the head, 

DEST. Destructiveness, running from Irrita- 
bility around and below the ear, seldom 
does much harm in a woman, though it gives 
her a full supply of temper and force, but in 
men it runs to anger, violence and lawless 
profligacy if not controlled by the Love 
region. 

COM. Combativeness, makes one face op- 
position contend for his rights and become 
quarrelsome and stubborn, unless controlled 
by Harmony. In women it makes them good 
scolds, and firm in maintaining; their rights. 

ADH. Adhesiveness (located a trifle too 
low) gives a fondness for society and attrac- 
tive manners, without which we get tired of 
company. 

ACQ. Acquisitiveness makes a selfish grasp- 
ing nature and when that region is large it 
brings in the deceit and jealousy of Secretive- 
ness, which is just a little below it, and runs 
into Rivalry, RIV. — a spirit of competition 
to surpass others, with an inclination to 
gambling. Jealousy and Acquisitiveness spoil 
many men for husbands. They are exacting, 
jealous and stingy. 

Cautiousness CAUT. is a cool steady qual- 
ity necessary to success opposed to the Rash- 
ness and Carelessness indicated on the neck 
RAS. 

Ill 



Arrogance ARR, is inclined to be rude and 
overbearing, unless checked by Modesty. 
Love of Power POW. gives great force and 
ambition. Business Energy B.E.N, is intensely 
practical— fit for any business and with self- 
reliance will push on to success. 

Approbativeness APP. (which should be 
located a little higher) gives pleasing winning 
manners and promotes social harmony. — It 
is stronger in women than men and so is 
Adhesiveness. 

Oratory ORA. is active and impressive, 
showing oft' our ideas and illustrating them 
handsomely. 

DIG. Dignity or self-respect is not the 
source cf conceit but maintains dignity and 
seeks to be honorable. 

Firmness FIR. is the most powerful of all 
the faculties, carries us through what we 
undertake, and is not afraid of danger. 

Energy, (ENE.) gives incessant industry 
and efficiency, and if not balanced by Indo- 
lence (IND.) is liable to overwork. Cheerful- 
ness (CHE.) is important in both sexes to 
hold up under misfortune and makes their 
company always pleasant. But when Cheer- 
fulness is low, the head sloping down from 
Firmness like a steep roof, and Melancholy 
MEL. making w T ide jaws, life is very gloomy, 
and such people are oppressive company. 

Finally Conscientiousness CON. does every- 
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thing honestly and industriously, pays debts, 
is grateful for favors and leads a godly life. 

And now, dear reader, if you have secured a 
a wife according to these rules, you have a 
treasure and a treasury that you must fill. 
Love her with all your might and she will 
give you compound interest on your whole 
investment. Never say a word that could 
possibly hurt her feelings; keep to yourself all 
such thoughts. Don't £nd faulty for that 
only injures your investment. There are 
ways to overcome all faults without scolding 
or grumbling, which only do harm; and 
when she is bearing children be doubly at- 
tentive and watchful if you would not be dis- 
appointed in your children. Court her still 
as you did to win her. 

I can give you a wonderful secret that will 
make good children if your are kind to their 
mother. Place the top of your head in which 
all your good qualities lie against the front 
of her womb. It will quiet the fetus, make a 
lovely child and a successful delivery in child- 
birth. This secret is worth millions to pos- 
terity and I must not conceal it — a salvation 
to women and children if repeated. Kneel be- 
fore your wife as she sits, while giving this 
blessing. If you are not willing to do this — 
you are not fit to have a wife. 

After due attention to periodicity and to 
the development of the brain, there is another 
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important matter too often overlooked— the 
law of heredity. What is in the parents is 
sure to appear in the offspring though it may 
be difficult to tell which parent will have the 
greatest influence. There was a striking il- 
lustration in France which is authentic, in 
the family of a farmer named Etampes. The 
man hanged himself without apparent cause, 
leaving seven sons and five daughters — ten of 
the eleven hanged themselves, after marrying 
and begetting children, and all of these chil- 
dren have hanged themselves. But there was 
one survivor, a son sixty-eight years old, 
when the case was reported by Prof. Brouar- 
del, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. 

All qualities and character are liable to this 
transmission and most likely to reappear at 
the same age. But prenatal impressions come 
in to produce strange results sometimes. 

In reference to a man I would study his 
treatment of his mother and his sisters. If 
faulty in that he is not a desirable husband. 
The girl who has neglected or disregarded a 
mother, and whom her companions do not 
love has not the best qualifications for a 
wife. These things may be beyond the reach 
of the enquirer but they are not beyond the 
reach of Psychometry. The students of the 
Manual of Psj r chometry have a sure protec- 
tion. 

There are many other valuable truths which 
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are still secrets, undiscovered in science which 
I would like to give the world if it were suffi- 
ciently^civilized to appreciate a true teacher 
and receive knowledge which is foreign to its 
habits and prejudices. But the more import- 
ant a truth may be the more dangerous it is 
to give it out prematurely, as was realized by 
Socrates, Jesus Christ, Hypatia, Joan of Arc, 
Bruno and Servetus. But I may speak to fu- 
ture ages. ''Primitive Christianity " is as 
much as the most enlightened can receive at 
present. 

Chap. 11-INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE. 

Decisive experience of a lady, a gentleman and 

Napoleon Bonaparte. 

(With a final lesson.) 

The reader cannot realize the truth of peri- 
odicity as I do after observing hundreds of 
verifications which I have left unrecorded. 
At present I can only give him a very recent 
sample which I recollect. 

It is the case of E., a lady of superior intel- 
ligence, who saw the great importance of pe- 
riodicity as soon as I applied it to her life ex- 
perience. 

She was born of very mature parents — one 
43, the other 37 years, older than herself, con- 
sequently endowed w r ith a very strong vital- 
ity, as the periodic law shows. Hence she 
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has been a woman of heroie energy, triumph- 
ing and surviving under conditions which 
would have been fatal to 999 in a thousand. 

In her Monday and Tuesday period, (9 to 
15) her school girl days, she led. No boy or 
girl could outrun her. In her studies she was 
at the head of her classes. Her mind was 
quick and intuitive; her spirit utterly fear- 
less. She has been shot at without a tremor 
— a stranger to fear — has faced hostile In- 
dians and defied their attacks, and has al- 
ways felt a consciousness of latent powers 
which justified a high ambition. She desired 
to enter a professional career, in which she 
would have been distinguished. But her stars 
were not propitious, for the narrow preju- 
dices of family and friends terribly held her 
back and her unselfish nature yielded to 
friends, as thousands of noble women have 
under the rules falsely ascribed to St. Paul, 
been held down in obscurity. With a less am- 
iable nature she would have won distinction. 

This might have been overcome in time 
when thrown upon her own resources, but 
she inherited a disease of the nervous system 
which the clumsy system of medicine eould 
never eradicate, and made her sensitive to all 
causes of disease, so that her life has been a 
struggle with physical suffering and calamity 
through which her vital force and energy sus- 
tain her wonderfully. 

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In the first seven years of her life her ill 
health was continuous, but more marked in 
sixth year. 

From 7 to 14 (Monday period) she was re- 
markably vigorous and active, excelling all 
her schoolmates, but had a sick spell in her 
13th or Friday year. 

An attack of measles occured in her unlucky 
13th year (1855) and in hei 20th or Friday 
year she had a sharp attack of pneumonia 
and bronchitis brought on by her benevolence 
in nursing a sister and the exposure of travel. 
But she was very vigorous and bright be- 
tween 14 and 21, the Tuesday period. 

From 21 to 28, the Wednesday period of 
strong action, she began favorably in the 
Monday year by a marriage which proved a 
happy and satisfactory union, blessed with a 
good son. But in the sixth or Friday year, 
at 27, came the death of her beloved hus- 
band with fraud on his estate, and the strug- 
gle of self-maintenance in which her energy 
soon won success in the 29th, 30th and 31st 
years. This was the Thursday period, 28 to 
35, and the last years were bound to be un- 
favorable, from 32 to 35. Financial loss 
came on severely in the 32d year, 1876, the 
effect of which continued on through the 
Thursday and the Friday period (1877-1884). 

At the same time, in her Thursday period, 
1876, (the Friday year) brought on a severe 
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attack of pneumonia, in her Friday month, 
July. The evils developed in the Thursday 
period made the whole Friday period ex- 
tremely unfortunate. In 1881-2-3-4 then in 
39th, 40th and 41st years, there were contin- 
ued misfortunes culminating in the 41st year. 

An attack of inflammatory rheumatism 
which came on in her Friday month, July 
1882, made her helpless for six months, un- 
able to move for four months, and she thinks 
she has never completely recovered from its 
effects. Her friends had no expectation of 
her recovery — in her central Friday year. 

In 1883 and '84 she was a complete wreck 
from this attack and domestic trouble, the 
severest calamity of her life coming on in her 
Friday year and Friday month, the effects 
lasting through the first year of the Saturday 
period, in a pulmonary affection supposed to 
be running into consumption, but ending in 
Monday year of the Saturday period — chang- 
into a local tumor which her constitution 
overcame in 1887 to '88. 

Her second son was born in November, a 
month congenial to her own and was of a 
very congenial nature, and her first son, born 
in March, which was her vigorous period of 
vitality, was a strong, active character, as 
well as congenial, according to his date. 

In her Saturday period, 42d to 49th year, 
she had no serious trouble, but gradual im- 
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provement. In the fall and winter of 1889 
and '90, in favorable months she made two 
public addresses which gained her her reputa- 
tion as a speaker, but on the other hand in 
her unfavorable 34th year she made a very 
impressive public address July 4th, 1876, 
which she would not have done if she had 
known anything of periodicity, and in conse- 
quence fell inio]typhoid pneumonia in ten daj T s 
afterward, from which she did not recover 
until the ensuing fall — though not a com- 
plete recovery then. 

She remembered generally that all her ser- 
ious attacks came on in the Friday time — 
June or July, and her recovering in the fall 
and winter, which are her favorable months. 
She was generally well in the winter. Being 
born in October, she does not suffer from au- 
tumnal malarial fevers, to which my birth 
date makes me liable. I have suffered much 
from autumnal malaria in late years and in 
my first experience of malaria in intermittent 
fever in my sixth year I became delirious. 

Autumnal malaria comes in an unfavorable 
time for those born in midwinter, and the 
spring snows and thaw r s are unfavorable to 
those born at the end of winter. If born in 
March it will be well for you to seek a cli- 
mate where the snows will not disturb you. 

From 1884 to 1891, having passed through 
her Friday period, she had no serious trouble, 
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but gradual improvement, and increase of 
reputation, but in 1890, the sixth year of the 
Saturday^ period, she suffered much from a 
tumor which seemed to require a very expen- 
sive and dangerous surgical operation, but 
with her own intuitive skill and spiritual co- 
operation she recovered without the sur- 
geon's knife. 

In 1891 she entered her second cycle, a time 
for change and progress in a new direction- 
its Sunday period lasting to Oct., '98 — and 
with prudence might have fully recovered, 
but misled by her heroic benevolence at a 
time which required great care to recover, she 
did not protect herself. She rested in her 
50th year, beginning the second cycle prop- 
erly; but in her 51st year she devoted about 
six months to nursing with a zeal and devo- 
tion which was far beyond her strength and 
was quite exhausted vitally, requiring the 
whole of the remaining Sunday period to re- 
cover from her rashness. 

But in the July month she married and im- 
mediately realized nervous depression and 
suffering which gradually diminished, but she 
has had no happy time in July. Learning 
something of the periodic law, she retired to 
a summer resort camp, meeting some congen- 
ial friends and experiencing some pleasure. 
But her experience of law shows her that she 
still has trouble before her, but that she may 
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expect success at the end of the century, 
1898-99, and 1900 when the advanced condi 
tion of the second cycle will be realized. 

Her personal experience has made the peri- 
odic law very impressive to her. In '96 she 
was induced against her own judgment to 
engage in an enterprise in the summer, which 
was developed in July as very unfortunate. 

She is very fond of children and has ob- 
served that the sixth month as a general rule 
brings on teething, feverishness, nervousness, 
cough, often followed by bowel troubles. The 
thirteenth month, beginning the second year 
is often unfavorable with such diseases as be- 
long to the vSeason, though the strength of 
the constitution generally resists. In girls 
she has noticed a sick spell about the thir- 
teenth year, and that her first son had a 
sick spell of fever near the end of his thir- 
teenth year and again near the end of his 
twentieth year with a financial loss of $800. 
Again in his 27 year near its close he was dis- 
appointed in securing a good business and 
competence. Thus he realized the unfavor- 
able influencee of his 13th, 20th and 27th 
years, which he might have guarded against 
if he had known the periodic law. 

I once had an opportunity to warn a friend 
against a periodic danger. After telling him 
of his periodic fate up to that time the gentle- 
man, (Prof. L.), a highly intellectual gentle- 
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man, was so impressed with the truth of the 
law, that he asked my advice in reference to 
a course of travel he was about to begin. I 
showed him that it would result in an un- 
fortunate failure, as it was then a very evil 
period, and he gave it up. 

Aside from the law of periodicity I was sure 
from my knowledge of his plan that it would 
prove disastrous, though he did not perceive 
it. Men are liable in their evil periods to fail 
in their judgment and engage in ill advised or 
impractible schemes. I can see in my own 
life serious mistakes in my unfavorable 
years which I have not detailed arising 
from practical errors. The evil year brings 
impaired judgment. 

The knowledge of periodic law would have 
saved E. from many a severe calamity, and 
she keenly realizes it now. 

I can add to her's an equally impressive 
case of a truly good man, Mr. A., whose 
whole life has been a series of mistakes in his 
Friday years. 

With talent, energy and virtue, he would 
have been an admired and beloved millionaire 
if he had been warned by periodicity or as- 
trology against his Friday years, and now he 
knows it and wishes me to record his expe- 
rience for the benefit of humanity. 

Born March 4, 1815, his evil years came on 
in 1821, 1828, 1835, 1842, 1849, 1856, 1863, 
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1870, 1877, 1884, 1891 and 1808, and they 
all proved unfavorable. 

He recollects nothing of his sixth year, but 
suffering from a severe boil ; nor has he much 
recollection of his 13th year, 1828. But in 
his 20th year, 1835, he made the mistake of 
bis life, as he now, sees it. He was pre-emi- 
nently qualified by nature for a physician, 
and even now is full of medical ideas, but 
though his friends tried to make him a doctor 
he ran off and went to a trade, in which his 
talents made him successful in a few years. 
But instead of adhering to his place, he made 
a change in his 27th year and in his 34th, a 
very evil year, he made perhaps his worst 
mistake in giving up a good and profitable 
marriage, droping his business, and coming 
to California, from New York, where he had 
wealthy friends, which he thinks now a great 
mistake. A good wife would have made him 
happy and saved him wealth. 

The California location was of course dis- 
astrous in his 41st year. He failed in busi- 
ness and lost everj^thing, though his services 
would command three or four thousand dol- 
lars a year. His 48th year brought him loss 
in partnerships, which he knows were all mis- 
takes, and in bank deposits, and he suffered 
from partnerships in his 55th year, 1870. 

But now in his second cycle, the severe cal- 
amities have ceased, yet in his 62d year, 1877, 
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he was salivated. After his 58th year he had 
no serious trouble, and his health improved, 
but the time for fortune had passed, and he is 
now nearing his end humbly, though con- 
tented in mind, and is ready to see a bet t Ik- 
world. He recollects no serious troubles ex- 
cept in his Friday years, and sees how the 
warnings of periodicity would have saved 
him. It seems that judgment becomes less 
reliable in our Friday years. May such ex- 
perience prove profitable to others. 



PERIODICITY OF NAPOLEON. 

Many an illustration of periodicity might 
be found in biography and history, but while 
finishing this little booklet, uncertain how 
soon the pen may drop from my hand, I am 
unable to make the research. 

But I must select one famous example, in 
the life of that imperial scoundrel, Napoleon 
Bonaparte, whose crimes have debauched the 
world's conscience so completely that he still 
receives a tribute of admiration. 

He passed through his evil periods utterly 
unconscious of the law he was fulfilling, and 
all nations have done the same without warn- 
ing heretofore. 

In evil periods men seem to rush on to their 
fate by the mental obscuration that belongs 
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to darker periods, and it seems to have been 
so with myself. 

jShall it always be so? I trust not, for the 
divine light of Christianity, which is the light 
of Heaven, will penetrate the dark twilight 
of the obscurities of life, and the law of peri- 
odicity will mark the dangers in our path. 

Napoleon was born August 15, 1769, and 
there is a singular harmony in consequence 
between his periodicity and that of the Amer- 
ican Republic, seven years younger, one in 
July, the other in August. Both were des- 
tined to disturb and break the Holy Alliances 
of consolidated despotisms, and both came to 
grief in similar periods (heseven years earlier.) 
1811-18 for the United States in an unsatis- 
factory war with England, which we wisely 
dropped, while we were protected by the gi- 
ant power of Napoleon in conflct with Eng- 
land, and 1804-11, for Napoleon, when he 
started his fatal policy which we assisted by 
fighting England. 

1816 was a disastrous year for the United 
States and I have already said that accord- 
ing the law, our war would have been far 
more disastrous if prolonged into 1816, with- 
out thinking how periodicity would have 
been fulfilled ; but looking to Napoleon we see 
that he too was on his downward career and 
held England in check, beginning in 1812 his 
insane war with Russia, fighting England in 
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Spain and the alHes in France, going down 
in 1814 and '15, when England might have 
turned upon the United States, but in ^1815 
the sinking giant rose again and occupied 
England's hosts until summer, protecting the 
United States. But in December, 1814, the 
United States, guided by Henry Clay, had 
concluded a not very glorious treaty, (saying 
nothing about imprisonment of American 
sailors), and Jackson's victory at New Or- 
leans two weeks later, gave us some consola- 
tion; but if the war had continued to 1816 
with the unembarrassed power of England it 
would have been terribly disastrous to the 
United States, from which we may learn that 
when we are running dow r n in our Friday 
periods and contests, it is well to have a wise 
friend like Clay to lead us into the path of 
peace and safety. 

Returning to Napoleon, we find his good 
periods of development and education run- 
ning as follows: 

Sunday to August 15, 1776. 

Monday to August 15, 1783. 

Tuesday to August 15, 1790. 

Wednesday to August 15, 1797. 
His evil periods were : 

Thursday to August 15, 1804. 

Friday to August 15, 1811. 

Saturday to August 15, 1818. 

Sunday three years to 1821. 
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As the Wednesday passes away the life 
struggle begins that exhausts and ends in 
death. I have not time to study Napoleon's 
first three periods of growth which made him 
a great man. The decadent periods of crime 
and desperation were Thursday 1797 to 1804, 
Friday 1804 to 1811, Saturday 1811 to 1818. 
How did they develope— as in Napoleon, and 
so in similar characters. 

The turn of the tide comes in Wednesday 
1790 to '97 when he entered his bloody ca- 
reer. In December '93 he captured Toulon. 
In 1^95 thinking of enlisting with the Sultan 
of Turkey, he slaughtered the National Guard 
in Paris by cannonade, and was made com- 
mander of the army ; and in March '96 (evil 
year 27th) marched to Italy, and in the same 
month married Josephine — a marriage that 
came to misfortune. 

> May and June were his evil months, March 
and April not propitious. Josephine was six 
years and fifty-three days his senior, which 
established discord between them placing her 
in his unfavorable month June and insuring 
much dissatisfaction on her part in personal 
intercourse, and insuring that he would be 
fascinated at first sight, being almost in a 
Sunday relation to her. I do not need to read 
auy memoirs to realize the many petty irrita- 
tions that must have arisen which his impe- 
rious temper would not tolerate, though he 
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must have admired and loved her. She could 
not be entirely happy in such a relation, not- 
withstanding it promised much love and 
he must have realized a lack of harmony. — 
He was too selfish to be faithful which she 
would feel, and she must have found persons 
more agreeable in manners than her husband. 
Look into her history, and I am sure this will 
be verified. As to her months, Murat was 
better suited to her than Napoleon and so 
were all of Napoleon's brothers, except Louis 
(Sept. 2, 1778) who was exactly fitted to be 
devoted to Napoleon which he was but had 
moral principle enough to try to do his duty. 
Joseph, Lucien and Louis all had principle 
enough to object to the criminal career of 
Napoleon, who was the black sheep of a good 
family. Joseph and Lucien had dates discord- 
ant with Napoleon's and Lucien quarrelled 
with his policy and broke off, starting for 
America 1810. 

The marriage to Josephine was dissolved in 
its unlucky 13th year. 

His campaign of lawless brigandage went on 
grandly and dishonorably in Italy, in his evil 
year 1796, and in his better year 1797 and in 
his good month, October, Austria yiekkd to 
his prowess. 

In June 1798, the evil month of his first 
Thursday year, he went to Egypt, which 
might be called a piece of luud piracy, and 
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made himself master, but left an infamous 
history. Disaster followed. Nelson destroyed 
his fleet, convulsions and massacres followed 
in Cairo, and he marched across the Syrian 
desert to attack Jaffa and Acre, where he was 
defeated and had to return in Cairo in his 
evil month June 14. 

In his better month August he returned to 
Paris and became first Consul, actually em- 
peror. In 1800 (Tuesday year of Thursday 
period) he displayed administrative vigor 
and success, made a successful 'campaign and 
peace with Austria, Feb. 9, 1806, and in the 
same year with Pope Pius, and a treaty of 
peace with England, March 1802. 

He established a system of government for 
France, entirely despotic, aiming chiefly at 
military success. 

His Italian policy irritated the English 
government and in the Friday year of his 
Thursday period 1803, and his evil month 
May 18, England declared war. It was not 
necessary that this evil period should involve 
him in war, but his own defiance of fate and 
of all moral law made his evil periods ter- 
rible. 

Losing sound judgment at this evil time, he 
thought of invading England, and expected 
to be received as a liberator. The evil pas- 
sions almost blind the judgement. At this 
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time Cadoudal and others were conspiring 
against his life which alarmed him~so as to 
result in the murder of Duke d'Enghein, and 
in May, (unlucky month) he crowned himself 
Emperor of France and King of Italy. 

The assumption as King of Italy and Em- 
peror in this unfortunate year (Friday of 
Thursday next to worst — being the 34th — 
paying the way to his 41st year) alarmed all 
Europe and in 1805 (the second year of his 
Friday period, a coalition was formed against 
him by England, Russia, Austria and Sweden 
and a sensible monarch would have sued for 
peace, but war began in September 1805. 
This was the beginning of his destruction and 
would have been worse if begun in June. But 
at Austerlitz he won a complete victory for 
1805 and 1806 were the best years of his 
Friday period, and in Feb. 1806 Naples was 
conquered and in June Louis his brother made 
King of Holland and in October his good 
month 1806 he defeated Prussia and Austria 
and entered Berlin, and in November started 
his mad campaign against British commerce 
by the famous Berlin.and Milan decrees, com- 
manding Europe to obey him, which were 
ultimate failures and did more than any- 
thing else to bring on his destruction. In 
July 1807 he got Russia to submit to his 
crazy commercial war against England, then 
made further encroachments on the rights of 
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the people and began war with Portugal to 
enforce his commercial war against Fngland. 

in 1808 he seized the royal family of Spain 
and made his brother Joseph King of Spuin, 
his brother Jerome becoming King of West- 
phalia, and swept through Spain successfully 
with 100,000 soldiers, and in 1809 he again 
subdued Austria, in his lucky month October. 

To a superficial observer he was in the flood- 
tide of fortune though he was really treading 
on the quicksands ot ruin. Friday bedevil- 
ment must be paid for terribly. Many a 
knave has been considered successful when he 
has put $100,000 in bank, but has only 
damned his own soul. 

In all his gigantic and desperate movements 
since 1803 he was only rushing spasmodic- 
ally and insanely to ruin, for love is life and 
hate is death. He was driven out of Spain 
across the Pyrennees, and soon defeated 
everywhere. 

General Jackson and Abraham Lincoln were 
wiser than Napoleon. They were not scour- 
ges but patriots. In their 40th and 41st 
years, instead of stirring storms and shedding 
blood they were avoiding rashness, living 
comparatively quiet and modest lives. 
Neither had any success or prominence in 
their Friday period. Jackson farmed and 
traded, lost money and was wounded in a 
duel which did him no credit. 

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In Napoleon's eight years of criminal folly 
came forth his crazy decrees, all in his evil 
years; beginning Nov. 1806, repeated Nov. 
1807, Dec. 1807 and January 1808, and Aug., 
Sept., Oct. 1810, all unexampled in folly— the 
last commanding the burning of all English 
goods in every country he could control. 
This was a fatal period (1810 the fatal year) 
and roused the hatred of Europe, ruining 
commerce by blockading decrees. Providence 
passed sentence then by universal law, and 
1811 to 1818 was the time of its execution. 

In Dec. 1809 he divorced Josephine and his 
desperate struggles to enforce his commercial 
war on all Europe brought their natural con- 
summation in 1812 in his insane war on 
Russia ( — toenfoice his decrees of 1806 — 10) 
— a war declared in his unlucky month, May, 
Terribly and horribly defeated there, he 
assailed Germany in 1813. Defeated by the 
allies, he tried to drive them out of France, 
but was conquered and sent to Elba 1814 
in his fatal month of May, the third year of 
Saturday — the fourth year ending his career 
as a prisoner instead of being hung like 
minor criminals. 

But his war with England in those years 
was of great assistance to the United States 
which it was his periodic destiny to help and 
the destiny of the United States to help him. 

Blind to his real condition he rose again 
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in March 1815, widely detested and met his 
fate at Waterloo, abdicating in his#fatal 
month June, surrendering to England in July 
and imprisond at St. Helena, dying in his 
evil month May 5, 1821, going to a world 
not entirely congenial to his nature. 

His surrender was in the 4th year of his 
Saturday period and his death in the third 
year of his second cycle in the Sunday period, 
the death was a good event for him giving 
him centuries to reform. 

He was crushed and put finally to rest in 
the fourth year of his Saturday period, but it 
was predetermined by the insanities of his 
Friday period which came to their maximum 
in 1810 the Friday of Friday. What followed 
after that was beneficial to him and to the 
world. His Friday insanity was too intense 
to be conquered by one defeat, and his seventy- 
five years in the higher world have not yet 
restored his moral equilibrium. 



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FINAL LESSON. 

If we rebel against Providence we learn 
nothing and continue ignorant. But when 
evils come it is our duty to seek the cause in 
ourselves— in our good and bad qualities. 
Reform yourself before you try to reform the 
world. 

It is evident that if you had been good, wise 
and great, you would have conquered evils 
and gained success. If you have not done 
this study your failures and mistakes, and 
see wherein you are below the highest stand- 
ard and resolve to do better. 



THE FINAL HEAVENLY RULE. 

To this advice I would add my best gift as 
a friend to every reader. 

Love is the secret of life — true life— happy 
life — successful life. It will carry you high 
above misfortune and land you in heaven. 
Find what you can love, and love it with all 
your might. The more love you have, the 
more happiness, the more health and the 
more success you w T ill have. Life will be joy- 
ful and friends near you. 

Young man love your wife, body and soul, 
with overflowing love aud fidelity. Y'oung 
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woman love your husband but choose him 

BY THIS BOOK. 

We must begin by loving mother and 
father, and if your soul is large enough to 
love God from whom all blessings come — and 
if you can love Jesus Christ, who is the 
world's example of a perfect life and try to 
imitate him, your prosperity is assured, and 
your evil periods may be conquered if you do 
your best, and in the land of the blessed you 
will remember with gratitude the counsel of 
your friend— The Author. 



Periodicity compared to Astrology. 

Prof. Cameron, who is one of the best 
astrologers in the United States, has made 
the following statement : 

Having studied the indications of periodi- 
city throughout my life according to the 
doctrines of Prof. Buchanan it seems to me 
that as far as I can recollect they have been 
entirely true. If I had known this science 
in my youth it would have saved me from 
great mistakes and financial losses. For the 
last thirteen years I have been a student of 
Astrology, which also shows where I had 
made mistakes and seems to confirm the new 
Science of Periodicity from the beginning to 
the end. A. E. Cameron. 

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[Addenda of 2d Edition.] 

Chap. 12.— PERIODICITY DEMONSTRATED IN 
UNIVERSAL HISTORY. 



It is not possible to trace in every century the orderly 
periodic development of life which would require a 
volume so large that few would read it. It will be suffi- 
cient to survey to the farthest horizon the visible de- 
velopment of human history and see if the divine plan 
of destiny embodies the periodic law based upon the 
ruling number seven, in which mankind have always 
recognized a mysterious power, to which their religious 
rites conformed and which they recognized when taking 
up a second seven — they excluded the sixth and rested 
in twelve, avoiding thirteen. 

To traee the law of periodicity through past and future 
centuries would require more time than I can now com- 
mand and I must leave it to my successors. 

But a second edition of this' book is called for, and I 
must, for lack of time, give but a hasty glance over the 
field. Periodicity affirms an undulation in progress like 
rising and falling waves of the sea. It affirms the evil 
tendency of sixth periods as a general law of nature, 
which may sometimes be disguised by other interfering 
laws and influences, but continually becomes apparent. 
The rising and falling tides are as apparent in destiny as 
in the ocean. 

As to our country, the leading republic, dating from 
July, 1776, which is therefore the beginning of its Sun- 
day period, the periodic law indicates its future, and, ae 
law operates permanently, we look back before our Sun- 
day to recognize the preceding Saturdays and their pre- 
ceding Fridays, and see if the law is everywhere verified. 

We begin with a Saturday of seven years back, which 
has its Friday two years back, in 1774, and find the law 
operating. We look over a Saturday of seven sevens or 

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49, reaching back to 1727, which has its Friday period, 
(the sixth) from 1762 to 1769, in which the law'becomes 
evident. 

The next larger period of seven forty-nines, the grand 
cyck of 343 years, reaches back to 1433, (1776-343=1433) 
and in that period the Friday years are from 1678 to 1727. 

Next we overlook the great grand cycle of seven three 
hundred and forty threes or 2,401, which has its Friday, 
343 to 686 year* back or from 1090 to 1433. 

The 2400 years carry us back from our republic (2401 — 
1776=625) 625 years before the Christian era (which has 
been accepted as the birth of Christ. Beyond that, his- 
tory is not sufficiently authentic and complete to make 
a good mathematical basis, but it harmonizes with the 
entire trend of the twenty-four centuries, and if a law 
has ruled the world for the twenty-four past centuries 
we may safely assume that it is a mathematical truth 
and will rule the world for the future in the destiny of 
nations, as I have found it to rule individual lives. 

I applied the rule to history as its test, and begun 
without knowing what the result would be. In calculat- 
ing the evil periods, I found : 

1762 to 1769, 
1678 to 1727, 
1090 to 1433, 

which is the grand central period of evil. Let us see if 
these were favorable or unfavorable periods. But as 
the reader may think it easy to find unfavorable periods 
in the past, let us look also for good periods in the re- 
mote past — for if everything grows darker and darker 
the farther we go back, it is easy to find evil, and noth- 
ing really good will be found ; but periodicity tells a dif- 
ferent story, and history sustains it, contradicting the 
common opinion of the law of progress. 

To look over twenty-four centuries we may divide this 
period in the middle, making each half twelve hundred. 
According to periodicity the first half will be good, be- 
ing Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and half of Wednesday. 
The last half will not be good, being Saturday, Friday, 
Thursday and half of Wednesday. The two halves of the 
centuries should therefore compare as the nours of day 

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and night compare in periodicity. We submit the 
question to the verdict of history. 

If we believe in the regular progress of humanity we 
shall expect to find the first half very Hark and the lait 
half very bright. But if we believe in periodicity and 
understand it, we shall expect to find the first half 
bright and the last half dark — which is contrary to the 
common ideas of evolution, and periodicity will point 
out four certain centuries as the very worst in all 
human history. If that is true it demonstrates the 
science. 

Wkat says history ? Periodicity says the Friday 
period was in the last twelve hundred years and was 
between 1090 a. d. and 1433 a. d., being 343 to 686 years 
before 1776, and being in a hostile relation to the date 
of the origin of American liberty and progress, it must 
have been a calamitous time for all that America rep- 
resents—a time for all the evils that America must con- 
quer. 

Periodicity says that as concerns progress, enlighten- 
ment and liberty, this must have been the darkest 
and worst of all known periods of human history. Let 
us bear this in mind when we study history. There is 
no philosophy of history which suggests such an opin- 
ion and there are many historical writers who conceal 
or misrepresent the facts for sectarian reasons. 

Periodicity also says that the noblest time, the Mon- 
day and Tuesdav centuries of all antiquity, was from 
2068 (2401—343) to 1372 (2058—686) years before our Inde- 
pendence. 

Let us look a moment beyond our Friday guided by 
periodicity, and see if all antiquity is a hostile influence 
by its ignorant undeveloped condition, as many would 
suppose. 

The Monday period for this calculation would be from 
2058 years back to 1715 back and the Tuesday period 
from 1715 back to 1372 back. What does history say of 
these 686 years with their center 1715 years before the 
dawn of the American republic — 1715 is a very signifi- 
cant number as we shall see. It signifies the arrival of 
a good period as the evil declines or an evil period as 
the good declines. 

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The Monday and Tuesday periods extend from 282 
years before Christ to 404 years after. The Monday 
period, reaching from 282 B. C. to 61 years after, and 
the Tuesday period from A. D. 61 to A. D. 404. Thus 
the advent of Christ and the Apostolic age came in the 
very center of the best period of 686 years — the labors of 
the Apostles extending into the beginning of the Tues- 
day period, which is the best of all. 

This was the brightest illumination in all history — a 
burst of sunshine throughout the first century, and that 
spiritual illumination seems so bright as to be incom- 
prehensible to mankind to-day, when they are just 
opening their eyes to the spirit world. 

The eight centuries of which Christ was the center, 
are the classic ages of history — the ages of philosophy, 
eloquence, religion and art, admired by all the ages of 
world — they recall to every reader the illustrious names 
that flit through the memory in a moment, such as St. 
John, St. James, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Matthew, in 
religious heroism, and in philosophy, virtue, astrono- 
my, mathematics, art and eloquence, Aristotle, Aris- 
tides, Apollonius, Augustus, Anaximander, Anaxogoras, 
Archimedes, Buddha, Cicero, Csesar, Confucius, De- 
mosthenes, Epaminondas, Euclid, Empedocles, Ep- 
icurus, Hippocrates, Hipparchus, Horace, Marcus Aure- 
lius, Ovid, Pericles, Pythagoras, Plato, Plutarch, the 
Plinies, the Ptolemies, Socrates, Solon, Seneca, Tacitus, 
Thales, Virgil, Xenophon, Xenocrates, Zeno and a hun- 
dred others. 

From this bright period which seemed to promise so 
much, the world, leaving its good period, sunk in 686 
years (from Tuesday to Friday) — a condition (from A. 
D. 1090 to A. L>. 1433) in which ignorance, superstition, 
blood-thirsty ferocity, knavery, profligacy and lawless- 
ness, covered Europe with slaughter, pillage and deso- 
lation, reducing empires to slavery, with poverty and 
beggary among the masses. It would require a large 
volume to portray the condition in which intelligence 
was paralyzed, education debased or destroyed, slav- 
ery established by a feudalism practically worse than 
African slavery, while the commanders and leaders of 
society, but few of whom could read and write, were 

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generally like brigands and assassins, whose rule was 
4 'That they should take who have the power and they 
should keep who can." This is what history shows, 
but the church which ruled in those Dark Ages is still 
in power, able to disguise its own history and by its in- 
fluence to discourage investigation and keep an over- 
whelming majority in ignorance of the condition of the 
world when Europe sunk in darkness below the condi- 
tion of the Mahometan empire. 

England, generally the foremost in maintaining indi- 
vidual liberty, was ground under the iron heel of Wil- 
liam the Conqueror from his conquest 10G6, to his death 
1097, the Saxon population being reduced to virtual sla- 
very. His son, William Rufus, kept the nation in con- 
stant war until he was shot with an arrow in 1100. 

The head of the church sixty years after 1433, was the 
notorious assassin called Alexander VI, but generally 
known as Borgia, of whom his most flattering biogra- 
pher said that he was a general making war by assass- 
ination, who lost his life in drinking by mistake the 
wine that he poisoned to murder a Cardinal. Assassin- 
ation by poisoning was not uncommon. Fires were 
habitually burning in numerous cities to burn witches 
alive, and for centuries the noblest citizens, obnoxious 
to any Pope, or suspeeted of heresy, were burned, hung 
or slaughtered. This monster, claiming supreme power 
over all nations, gave America to the Spaniards, who 
slaughtered the natives by millions, and another Pope, 
Adrian IV, under whom transubstantiation was estab- 
lished as a doctrine, gave Ireland by a bull to the King 
of England in 1156. The Papacy claimed supreme 
power as the agent of God to rule all nations and exter- 
minate all who resisted it, and did all it could in the 
way of extermination, when it had the necessary power. 

It based these claims upon the forgeries in the epistles 
of Paul, especially in the first chapter of Romans, "Let 
every soul be subject unto the higher powers, for there 
is no power but of God. The powers that be are or- 
dained of God. W^hosoever therefore resisteth the 
power resisteth the ordinance of God, and they that re- 
sist shall receive to themselves damnation." This for- 
gery secured the alliance of every imperial tyrant and 

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secured bis support for the Papacy, which had fanatical 
followers to do ita bidding, and to them it was more ter- 
rible than any earthly government — able to send them 
to hell or to pray them out of it — to keep their relatives 
in hell or release them — to send them to hell by refu- 
sing absolution, to impose any penance the priest may 
be willing to inflict or to cut them ofl from society as an 
outlaw who may be starved to death, robbed or even 
burned alive if he does not conceal his opinions. The 
Lateran Council 1215 and Pope Innocent III, declared 
that excommunication destroys all rights of persons or 
property. It even prohibits any intercourse with them 
or acts of kindness and that the excommunicated may 
be slaughtered or burned alive as a virtuous act, has 
been amply shown by the history of the church. So 
virtuous was it considered that King Ferdinand of 
Spain, under whom Columbus discovered America, was 
made a saint for his piety in personally carrying wood 
to be used in burning heretics. 

Prompted by the Popes, millions of their fanatical fol- 
lowers attempted to invade and conquer the Turks, who 
were greatly their superiors in civilization and charac- 
ter, for the Papacy had profoundly debased all Europe 
and it would have been a great advance in moral pro- 
gress if the Turks had conquered Europe. How many 
millions were publicly burned as witches and as here- 
tics could not be accurately ascertained, nor how many 
were slaughtered, for not accepting the Pope as the vice- 
gerent of God, and dictator for all nations — nor how 
many were tortured by the Inquisition. A Catholic 
mob enraged at Paul IV, burned the building and re- 
leased 72 prisoners. The horrors of the Inquisition es- 
tablished and maintained by the church in the thir- 
teenth century, remind us that truth is stranger than 
fiction, for it is difficult to believe the horrors of the 
world's black Friday period unless we read such special 
works as HitteU's History of the Papacy, published 
lately at San Francisco ; and the world generally is very 
ignorant on this subject. 

Whether ten thousand or a hundred thousand were 
burned alive as heretics, will always be concealed, but 
there was no concealment at the time of the horrid 

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spectacle, which was enjoyed by the aristocracy of the 
church and government in the Spanish slaughter prison 
sixty feet square, as they now enjoy bull fights since 
they cannot roast human beings. It was the greatest 
religious ceremony of the Papacy, and King Ferdinand 
attended it, carrying wood. This royal saint having 
made peace with the Moors and promised them protection 
from slaughter, was released by the Pope from his 
treaty that he might freely slaughter all who would not 
join the Papal church, which he was not slow in doing. 
The century before and the century after the black 
Friday may be classed with it. In the 10th century the 
Papacy was sinking to the lowest infamy under such 
Popes as the seven called John (10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 
14th, 15th and 16th). John XII was deposed for his 
scandalous life. The 14th and 17th Johns were each as- 
sassinated by their competitors. In this century was 
fully developed the scrambling warfare of Popes and 
anti-Popes, four claiming to be Popes in 1046 — the last 
©f which scandalous scenes appeared in 1415, when three 
Popes were deposed at once. I shall not annoy the 
reader with the shameful details of licentious and crim- 
inal Popes excommunicating each other. Such religion 
might well be called a moral chaos. The century fol- 
lowing the black Friday went on to its climax of infamy 
in Pope Borgia. 

The Age of Insanity. 

The black Friday period (343 years ending 1433) may be 
called the age of moral, physical and intellectual insan- 
ity of nations, and we are not yet half recovered from its 
debasing effects on the moral sentiments of mankind by 
false standards of ethics, and the vast amount of false- 
hood and forgery which it originated to conceal Us 
crimes, using the Epistles of St. Paul crammed with 
forgeries to justify its claims to dominion by the sword 
and reconcile men's consciences to anti-Christian prin- 
ciples. The forged epistles of Paul still rule all churches 
called Christian and the false ethics rule in the churches 
and interfere with every government. Indissoluble 
marriage, subjection of women, vengeance ir stead of re- 
form for criminals, splendor for bishops and cardinals, 

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subjection and poverty for the people — robbery of 
workers for the benefit of the priests and authority of 
the priests over all nations to compel the observance of 
the Sunday law of the Pagan murderer Constantine, 
although it was repudiated by Jesus and St. Paul — and 
most reverential deference to the long endured Lord of 
MasBacre and Forgery, to whom eighteen centuries of 
ignorance have knelt and whom the debased moral sen- 
timent still tolerates, for we are not yet out of the 
shadow of the Dark Ages. 

Mankind have endured Papal crimes so long as to be- 
come insensible to their enormity and historians have 
so long bowed to the power of the church and treated 
its horrid crimes as matters ot indifference or shielded 
them with apologies that the conscience of nations is 
torpid. 

That the career of the Papacy for many centuries was 
that of an intensely superstitious but practically pirat- 
ical band, determined to exterminate all whom they 
could not enslave (as was shown by Spain in the 
Netherlands 1567-1688) at a cost of $800,000,000— was as 
clearly shown in Prussia from 1018 when Boleslas began 
the conquest of the native Prussians to establish the 
despotism of the Papal church until 1283 when the con- 
quest of the Prussians was completed under Pope Hon- 
orius IV by the Sword Bearer Knights of the church, to 
whom was given all the lands they could conquer, over 
which they nearly exterminated the native population. 
This horrible long-enduring crime against a free nation 
by the brigands of the church is a typical illustration of 
the character which it has illustrated for eighteen cen- 
turies wherever it had the power, as it had in the Dark 
Ages of the Black Friday of which it has never repented. 
And Protestants, just escaped from Romanism retained 
the same criminal spirit. Calvin had Servetus burned 
with a slow fire of green wood and tortured his victims 
on their way to execution with hot irons. Yet a Scotch 
minister once said to me at Boston, "I adore Calvin" ! 

While these crimes were in progress against the Prus- 
sians, the Papacy uuder Innocent III (born 1161, dying 
1217) attained its maximum power and Honorius, his 
successor, urged on the desolation of Prussia, but the 

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terrible and bloody crusade against Alligensian and 
Waldensian Christians, was chiefly impelled by Inno- 
cent. 

The doctrine of the Papacy ia now and always has 
been that every effort to revive the pure and peaceful 
Christianity of Jesus was a crime originated by the 
devil, which ought to be crushed by tjie sword or by 
burning alive. Early in the Black Friday St. Bernard 
of Clair vaux, the leading oracle of the church, founder of 
160 monasteries and author of about eight hundred 
books, said of tke Waldenses A. D. 1140, * 'There is a 
sect which calls ^ itself after no man's name, which 
affects to be in direct line of apostolic succession, and 
rustic and unlearned as it is. * * * * * 
It must derive its origin from the devil since there is no 
otber extraction to which we can assign it." Stimulated 
by his fierce eloquence, those honest Christian pioneers 
of the Reformation were assailed and slaughtered or 
burned alive by the whole power of the church ; but a 
remnant has survived seven hundred years of Papal 
ferocity and been restored to their rights in 1848. 

Under St. Bernard, Innocent III and other Popes 
Europe went insane and as Chamber's Cyc. says, 
"Fields, towns, cities and castles were in many places 
almost depopulated, and innumerable legions fired by 
his prophetic eloquence, hurried to the East, nine- 
tenths of whom never saw their homes again." 

The pretext of redeeming the tomb ©f Christ from the 
Moslems was a papal fraud as no tomb of Christ was 
ever known. His body was secretly carried away by 
his friends and no stone has ever marked the grave. 

In the terrible persecutions of Alligensian, Walden- 
sian and Huguenot Christians which roused the 
indignation of Milton, the horror reached 
its maximum in the establishment of the In- 
quisition to hunt, kill and torture heretics, begin- 
ning under Innocent III, with the 13th century, urged 
on by the Lateran Council 1215, and organized as a per- 
manent tribnnal 1248, which perfected the machinery 
of slavery and torture by establishing auricular confes- 
sion which made it impossible to hide anything from 
the bloodhound skill of the heresy hunters. 

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If the reader could imagine a hell conducted by devil8 
for torture without fire he may realize its character, but 
I shrink from the description or its horrors— one of 
which was a masked statue to represent the Virgin 
Mary, arranged to hug the sinner while the hidden 
knives of ner arms and nody penetrated his flesh. This 
was the last invention of Roman piety and was found 
in Spain, but the purpose originated with Inaocent A. 
D. 1200. 

Asiatic Barbarism. 

While all this infernalism was in progress in Europe 
under Popes < laimin* to conquer the world, an equally 
threatening calamity appeared in Asia in the career of 
Temujin, born A. D. 1155 and dying 1227, who likewise 
claimed to rule the entire world, as the great high priest 
of Asia, Bout Tangri or "Son of Heaven" gave him 
the ti le of Genghis Khan, o- ruler of a'l Khans, who 
should rule over the who^e earth, as he might have done 
if he had lived ten years longer. He conquered nearly 
all Asia, destroying fiv* or six million lives, and if like 
Mahomet, or like the Pagan priests of Rome who made 
the Papacy he had founded a permanent indivisible 
church corporation with one permanent head, Europe 
would have been conquered an « the Papacy extermin- 
ated, for he had the greatest military genius of his cen- 
tury, and Asiatic barbarism would have triumphed over 
the Papal imposture which had concealed and abolished 
the religion of Jesus, changing it from love to hate. 
The history of this change after the deaths of the Apos- 
tles, whieh I have given in Primitive Chri tianity, 
shou'd be studied by every lover of truth. 

The death of Genghis Khan and division of his 
emp re was fortunate for civilization. 

In this dark Friday p riod, the Pope and priests, bas- 
ing their claims upon a history largely interpolated with 
forgeries called the New Testament, reversing all the 
essential principle* of Chris? ianity and contradicting 
the Apost'es, knowing that their claims would not bear 
investigation, adopted the necessary expedient of such 
imncstors by prohibiting all investigation of their 
claims, making it a crime for any bu a priest to have a 

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bible in any language and a still grea'er crime to trans- 
late and have it in his own language, for which Tyndale 
was burned alive in 1536, as many had been punished 
for reading it. 

Hildebrand (Gregory VII) in the llih century pro- 
hibited the oenple from reading the hi le n their own 
language, claiming that it wa* the intention of God to 
make it mysterious. 

In the whole career of the Papacy the claim has been 
enforced as far as possible that the"Pope was the master 
of the world, entitled to rule by the pvCord, to make and 
unmake kings, to confiscate property, to conquer na- 
tions and take their lands, to subject all heretics to 
slaughter and burning, to make kings kiss his foot, 
which nine emperors were compelled to do — one of 
whom, Frederick I of Germany, had his crown kicked 
off by Alexander III, w r ho called him a liar. 

The unlimited assumption of Hildebrand and other 
popes of the dark ages have never been yielded in later 
times. They attempted to conquer England, captnre 

ueen Elizabeth and deliver her to the Inquisition. To 
cultivate science or pure Christianity was extremely 
dangerous. Roger Bacon, the greatest, indeed the only 
philosopher of his age, was imprisoned nearly to his 
death, and there is a long list of martyrs. 

The right assumed by the Pope to violate treaties and 
commit frauds and forgeries he even transferred to 
others, as in the case of Ferdinand. He offered it to 
Frederick of Germany, who scornfully refused it. All 
through the four dark centuries the popes sustained an 
enormous forgery called the Isidorean Decretals, which 
purported to be authoritative, being about a hundred 
decrees of popes and complete regulations of their 
hierarchy. The forgery^ was palpable but profitable, 
and was kept up until 7 after the fourteenth century 
when it was dropped, the forgery being certain to any 
one who examined it, but the forgeries upon Jesus and 
the Apostles cannot be dropped without dissolving the 
Papacy. 

We may say that 'he 13th, 14th and 15th centuries 
contain the world's maximum calamities and crimes 
and it is not too much to say that all great calamities 

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and crimes since that fatal Black Friday centuries ago 
may be traced to their causes in the moral debasement 
of mankind at that time. How many centuries may be 
required for our recovery we dare not say. 

The Black Death. 

In these four centuries we have not only the maxi- 
mum of pestilence in fifty millions perishing by the 
Black Death — but the maximum of political and clerical 
infancy in ignorance, corruption, despotism, persecu- 
tion, slaughter, torture, burning alive and every imag- 
inable form of crime. We have not space to describe it, 
nor would the reader enjoy the horrible accumulation 
of sufferings. 

The pestilence raged from 1333 to 1357 — the very 
center of the Friday of Fridays — a coincidence alone 
sufficient to demonstrate the law of Periodicity. 

In that terrible center of Fridays, 1335 — 1384, the 
moral gangrene of the Papacy burst open from its own 
rottenness, resulting 1378, \in tw o lines of rival popes,, 
lasting till 1434, though both lines were deposed in 1410, 
Periodicity led me to look for that year as a Friday cen- 
ter ; and I found the Papacy bursting to pieces in open 
violence and corruption under Urban VI. 

It had been previously disgraced by Pope Boniface 
(1295) who assassinated his rival, and John XII whose 
life became an intolerable stench of licentiousness, for 
which he was turned out in 963, and would have been 
hanged under American laws. This utter degradation 
of the Papal court, which continued into the eighteenth 
century, is well illustrated in Prince Talleyrand's 
graphic description of the beastly death of a Catholic 
Archbishop in his presence in the midst of a gluttonous 
debauch and his conduct before he came. 

At the beginning of the 13th century we find Gregory 
IX endeavoring to subjugate the Emperor Frederick of 
Germany, but in vain, and at the end of the 15th the 
most infamous of all imperial criminals, Pope Alexan- 
der VI — Borgia, assumed to give America to the robber 
nation, Spain — but perhaps the Black Death of the 14th 
century may be considered more terrible than all the 
Papacy could do, though not so lasting in its effects. 

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Our record of the dark centuries must for brevity be 
very incomplete, but we must not omit to mention the 
cruelties under the Papacy against helpless Jews, which 
reached their maxim urn in the Black Friday century, 
especially in France. Chambers' Cyclopedia says: 
"From the 11th to the 14th century their history is a 
successive series of massacres — kings, bishops, feudal 
barons and even the municipalities all joined in a car- 
nival of persecution." Philip II, 1180 — 1223 confiscated 
and seized debts due to the Jews and banished them, 
Louis IX, whom Boniface VIII made a Saint in 1297, 
continued the confiscations and "at Paris 24 carts filled 
with copies of the Talmund, etc., were consigned to the 
flames. The Jews were again cruelly expelled A» D. 
1306, but were afterward allowed to return, and two- 
thirds of their debts confiscated. 

"In Larguedoc and the central regions of France 
(1321 A. D.) the common people signalized themselves 
by horrible massacres of the detested race, so horrible 
indeed that in one place (Verdun) the Jews in the mad- 
ness of their agony threw down their children to the 
Christian mob, hoping in vain to appease the demon- 
iacal fury of their assailants. In whole provinces every 
Jew was burned. At Chinon a deep ditch was dug, and 
160 of both sexes burned together." 

In England from 1189 to 1253 their persecution was 
•o fierce that they begged permission to leave the coun- 
try. In 1280 in Germany Jewish robberies and massa- 
cres and banishments raged from the 12th century to 
1476 — being worse at the time of the Black death 1348 — 
50. In Spain the Jews flourished under the Moors, but 
in the 14th century the priests became their enemies 
and as Chamber's Cyc. says, "Immense numbers wore 
murdered and wholesale theft was perpetrated by the 
religious rabble. Escape was possible only through 
fight to Africa, or by accepting baptism at the point of 
th* sword. The number of these enforced converts to 
Christianity is reported at 200,000. The fate of the Jews 
in Spain dnring the 15th century beggars description. 
Persecution, violent conversion, massacre, the tortures 
of the Inquisition — we read of notbing but these ! 
Thousands were burned alive. In one vear 280 were 

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burned in Seville alone. In 1492 Ferdinand and 
Isabella issued an edict for the expulsion within four 
months of all who refused to become Christians with 
the strict inhibition to take neither gold nor silver 
out of the country. " About half a million were driven 
out or killed, but we omit the horrible history. 

We present these terrible facts simply to show how 
history verifies the law of Periodicity. A volume might 
be filled with other illustrations. We must not over- 
look the conquest of the Moors of Spain 1212, and the 
establishment of the Inquisition 1248, resulting in the 
industrial ruin of Spain, reducing a great nation to beg- 
gary by expu-sion of the Moors, and leading to centuries 
oi persecution, war and ferocity, which have ruined a 
nation once the leading power of Europe. The calam- 
ities initiated in the Black Friday are still partially re- 
alized in the 19th century. 

No sudden amelioration could follow the close of the 
Black Friday period in 1433, but its profound wicked- 
ness slowly roused the latent sense of justice and truth 
in few human souls and though Hubs bad been burned 
alive in 1415, the bold, enthusiastic preaching of Savon- 
arola at Florence against the corruption of the age 
between the years 1452 and 1498 (when he was put to 
death) roused the spirit which appeared more success- 
fully under Luther in 15 r 0. 

The first century after the Black Friday not only 
brought the beginning of the Reformation but a bril- 
liant period in art under Da Vinci, Michael Angelo and 
Raphael, between the same years, 1452 and 1520. A 
taste for classic literature was roused and with the taste 
for classic architecture, painting and sculpture, in the 
15th and 16th centuries superseding mediaeval ideas, 
gave to this peoiod the title renaissance, or a revival of 
the classic age. According to periodicity, this could 
not have occurred before the beginning of the 15th cen- 
tury, and it did not. It was, however, only a superfi- 
cial polish on a criminal age. The Popes had previously 
made war on classic art and burned fine statuary into 
lime. 

The beginning of its decline after its most powerful 
career was the beginning of the Thursday period of the 

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Papacy from 1442 to 1785. It was at this period that 
Luther came— 1483— 1546, Michael Angelo 1474, 1563, 
and Henry VIII reigning 1509 — 1547. This was the be- 
ginning of efficient Protestantism in Germany and Eng- 
land, as well as the Huguenot reformation in the strug- 
gle in France in 1560. Thus, in accordance with Period- 
icity the chance from despotic triumph to progressive 
failure began early in its Thursday, appearing especial- 
ly centuries later in the decree of Clement XIV, the 
best of the Popes, suppressing forever the Society of 
Jesuits for "the peace of the church" and their numer- 
our expulsions from Catholic kingdoms, followed by the 
capture of Rome and destruction of its political power, 
through all of which calamities its cruel policy and in- 
sane claims to universal dominion have never changed. 

The Papacy has not ceased to smile upon the Spanish 
bull fights, the horrible tortures of innocent people by 
Canovas, the head of the Spanish government, and the 
destruction of at least 300,000 of the peaceful inhabit- 
ants of Cuba by famine and the sword. But this ia a 
vast improvement on the old Black Friday period, for 
the American republic prevented total extermination, 
and republics will soon rule the world, for to-day the 
Friday centuries of humanity have been left 465 years 
behind us, and in the future calamities there will be a 
resurrection to a nobler destiny. 

A hundred years after the Black Friday its spirit was 
organized in the Jesuit Society, the full-blown flower of 
the Papacy. Though expelled for its crimes by every 
Catholic nation, it is again in power, because it ex- 
presses the true vital principle of the Papacy, and will 
surely drag the church down vith it to destruction, not- 
withstanding the resistance of honest and patriotic 
Catholics, who adhere to the church because deluded in 
their education. 

Periodicity embraces the future as well as the past, 
and points to the end of the Papal imposture as dis- 
tinctly as it points to the Friday periods of this re- 
public in the past and future. 

In the great grand cycle of 2401 years, the Friday 
period of the church extends from 1715 to 2058 years 
from its beginning A. D. 70, chronologically A. D. 1785 

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to 2128. Its Friday period is counted onward from its 
beginning in the first century in opposition to the Amer- 
ican periods we have counted back from 1776, so that 
its decline coincides with the porgress of American lib- 
erty, as the date of its origin makes it the eneoay of our 
republic. 

In the declining period of the Roman church, begin- 
ning about 1785 (according to its Periodicity) its crim- 
inal power has been almost abolished by civilization, 
and yet it still asserts its claims, denying publicly that 
governments derive their just authority only from the 
people which was its assertion four years ago through 
Cardinal Vaugban, in England. Its clergy still hope to 
renew the power it wielded in the Dark Ages — in the 
absolute despotism of the church over any government 
chosen by the people — the most deadly antagonism to 
our Declaration of Independence ; and this is boldly pro- 
claimed by Cardinal Manning of England, by Arch- 
bishop Hughes of America, by Bishop O'Connor, by 
Brownson, their leading author, a nd by Pope Pino IX, 
1851, as well as their leading newspapers, and has been 
amply illustrated in the Catholic government of the 
Philippine Islands — the most corrupt and cruel govern- 
ment on earth in the present century, which enables us 
to realize what it w r as in the four centuries of the Black 
Friday time. 

Italy's great poet Petrarch (1304 — 74) and Michael 
Angelo, its grandest artist (1474 — 1563), who constructed 
St. Peters Cathedral, portrayed the character of the 
Papacy in their time in words that should never be for- 
gotten — remarkable words, as they are the testimony of 
Catholics. 

From a sonnet of Michael Angelo we quote his words : 

"The blood of Christ is sold, so much the quart, 

And short must be the time ere even his patience cease, 
For Rome still slays and sells him at the Court 
Where virtue's paths are closed to fair increase." 

This allusion to selling the blood of Christ refers to the 
Papal pretension that the blood shed by Christ had the 
power of saving the world and the portion left on the 

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cross gave the Pope the saving power, which he used in 
pardons and indulgences ! ! ! chiefly for criminal pur- 
poses. 

Petrarch, the greatest poet of Ita 1 }' in his time, con- 
demned the Papal creed in still stronger language. He 
said : 

"Well-spring of misery, abode of wrath, 
Temple of heresy a^d school of errors, 
Once Rome now Babylon, faithless and fell 
Through whom men weep so sore and groan so deep; 
Oh, forge of frauds, O, dreadful prison house 
Where dies all good, where evil is born and bred 
Thou hell on earth ! A marvel huge 'twould be 
If Christ at last pours not his wrath on thee." 

Petrarch was a Catholic, but as he lived in the midst 
of the Black Friday hell, he saw what he described, and 
honest Catholics have always made similar confessions. 
We must wonder at the power of superstition (believing 
the Bible the word of God) to compel men to cling to a 
church which they know to be a den of villainy. They 
had also another strong motive in the death by fire or 
torture ready for heretics. 

St. Bonaventura (A. D. 12:^1—1274) lived in the midst 
of the Papal hell and was the most eminent theological 
writer of that time, excepting St. Thomas Aquinas (A. 
D. 1224 — 1274). Both were called seraphic d ctori and 
Aquinas was called the universal doctor. Theie two 
paints of the Papal hell are the great fountains of Papal 
theology, which is a theology without morals and with- 
out Christianity. Both were contemporaries of the In- 
quisition, which was a pa*t of their religion. 

I have not examined the writings of Aquinas. It is 
enough to know that be is one of the Dominicans who 
managed the Holy Inquisition. St. Bonaventura, 
seraphic doctor and Cardinal, and therefore perfectly 
familiar with the inside life of the Papacy, sa : d : 

"Rome is the harlot who makes kings and nations 
drunk with the wine of abominations. The princes of 
the church are fornicators, robbers and the children of 
the devil: and by their vices they have corrupted the 
whole world." And this great saint was himself cor- 

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rupted enough to associate with all these criminals and 
support the church they governed and polluted. This 
contamination, developed fully in the Black Friday, 
clings to the church still, and by the power of the 
church induces society to tolerate all its infamy and 
speak most reverentially of the Pope and the church. 

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091-1153, was a greater man 
than the two seraphic doctors — a fiery orator, who said 
that the Alligensian and Waldensian Christians came 
from the devil (as they claimed a regular apostolic suc- 
cession), and started a bloody and disastrous crusade in 
1 146, already mentioned. This pre-eminent saint, whom 
Bonaventura and Aquinas followed, knew as well as 
they the infamies of Rome which he sustained, and 
said, N ^I£ - we could look behind the partition that we 
might see the horrible things in the House of the Lord, 
the foulest things would appear on the inside of the 
partition. Many of these offenses cannot be concealed 
on account of their multitude, nor, by reason of their 
impudence do they court concealment." 

That tells the whole story, and it is needless to quote 
fifty other authoritative witnesses. Such is the holiness 
of Popes, bishops and priests, inquisitors and criminals, 
whom it requires foul language to describe. We see the 
fountain of all in the Black Friday centuries, and the 
foul tide running down to the 19th century so poisoning 
the moral sense of mankind that the six great nations of 
Europe still adhere to the church pronounced by its 
own saints "fornicators, robbers and children of the 
devil," where, according to St. Bernard, "the foulest 
things appear," and by reason of "their impudence" do 
not "court concealment" on account of "their multitude." 

All is sanctified, according to Bonaventura, by "union 
with God," which enabled him to enjoy such crimes, as 
his mystical God is chiefly devoted to maintaining hell. 
To unite with such a god qualifies one to maintain a hell 
on earth. For in the most rigidly orthodox theology 
the happiness of the saints in heaven will largely con- 
sist in seeing the heretics roasting in hell, and no one 
can intelligently belong to the Biblical church that 
reigned supreme in the Black Friday and still follow its 
Bible, without believing that the majority of his neigh- 

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bors ought to be agonizing in eternal fire. But the time 
is coming when all who entertain these Biblical ideas 
will be regarded as unfortunate monomaniacs, and 
ashamed to confess their delusion, which certainly re- 
sembles insanity. 

The Black Friday saints who enjoyed the roasting of 
heretics did all they could to annihilate all that was 
taught by Jesus Christ at the peril of his life, and seri- 
ously believed themselves holy, as their God delighted 
in human agony. When will the world recover from 
the Black Friday theology as Periodicity warns us? 
The Black Friday theology reached its maximum under 
its three great leaders, Bernard, Aquinas and Bona- 
ventura, of whom Bernard was born as the Black Friday 
began, and the other two lived parallel lives through 
the first half of the Black Friday. 

The Black Friday theology that established the Holy 
Inquisition was really the absolutely faithful theology 
of the Roman Bible, fairly carried out, like its geogra- 
phy, which made the earth a flat plane with four cor- 
ners and a wall high above it to hold the waters for 
Noah's flood. 

The doctrines of love, justice, reverence and disinter- 
estedness taught by Jesus and St. Paul, were converted 
by criminal forgeries in an annonymous Bible con- 
structed at Rome into a religion of hatred, cruelty, war 
and robbery, and as the forged Decretals ruled Christen- 
dom over seven centuries, no man daring to deny them, 
so has the Bible crammed with forgery held its place in 
power, no man daring to show its forgery and falsehood 
until I performed the work and published the truth in 
1897-98, which every honest truthseeker, every lover of 
his country, should read and circulate among the dupes 
of Black Friday theology. It is the most important and 
wonderful contribution that history has ever received, 
and bears the title of "Primitive Christianity," and 
is the first presentation of rational religion in literature 
since the murder of Jesus and his apostles. 

If we should count the periodicity of the Papacy from 
the time when it dared to present a canonical bible 
without any evidence, on its own authority, and when 
Pope Victor could excommunicate Asiatic churches for 

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fanciful reasons, we would make its Friday period begin 
about 1885, the time when I began the exploration of 
religious history, which resulted in vindicating Jesus 
and the apostles, and exposing the biblical fraud. But 
this would be getting the periodicity of the Bible rather 
than the church, and the future of bibliolatry. 

Bibliolatry. 

The 343 years for the Friday period of Bibliolatry 
may extend from A. D. 1885 to 2228, and the most fatal 
time would come between 2130 and 2179 A. D. 2170 is 
very near its limit, and we may expect two centuries 
more of its declining age, when it will blend with the 
spiritual movement, retaining its hold longest in the 
least enlightened nations. It will probably contribute 
something of a spirit of devotional warmth or reverence 
to the progress of humanity. 

Periodicity of the Papacy. 

But if we date the Papacy from the beginning of the 
church, and not from the time when its bible appeared 
(and Pope Victor could excommunicate churches for 
celebrating Easter on a day he did not approve), we 
must go back a hundred years to its first origin at 
Rome, when it repelled St. John and started its Pope as 
a Roman bishop, Cletus, about the year 70 A. D. With 
this origin, which seems a more correct view of the 
Papacy instead of the bible, the Friday period of the 
Papacy as the antagonist of Christianity may begin at 
1785, nine years after the birth of American liberty, 
(1715 is the decline of the orthodoxy which crucified 
Jesus), and extend to 2228 — its most fatal time being 
between 2130 and 2179. Thus we have in 1898, 270 years 
to endure it, and during these years how many revo- 
lutions and wars may we have in which the declin- 
ing superstitions may take an active part. Thus far 
our average seems to be two in a century. The predic- 
tions authorized by Periodicity are sustained by the 
statistics of this century, which show that Bibliolatry is 
going to destruction. These statistics, as presented in a 
New York magazine, "Mind," Nov. 5, 1898, (collected by 

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J. Montgomery McGovern), show that the church 
throughout the world is declining in members, and 
that from 1833 there has been a steady decline, amount- 
ing to eight per cent in 57 years. "Continuing at this 
rate," says Mr. M., 'in seven hundred years Christianity 
will be but a memory. Relax the missionary movement 
one-half and the year 2240 will see no more Christians." 

It is quite remarkable, also, that when Periodicity 
gives a limit at 2228 A. D., statistics prophecy 2240; and 
when Periodicity says that a decisive decline must have 
begun in 1885, which implies a very distinct decline in 
the preceding Thursday period, in the year 1834 (the 
Friday of Thursday), the statistician finds a decline 
beginning in 1833!! 

Another study of Periodicity by G. E. Clemens of 
Topeka, Kansas, brother of the author, Mark Twain (S. 
L. Clemens), leads to similar conclusions in harmony 
with Periodicity. Mr. Clemens thinks he has found in 
history what may be called "an important natural social 
law" of thirty-year cycles. "He traces the anti-slavery 
movement from Lincoln's emancipation proclamation 
back thirty years to its organization in 1832. He follows 
the chartist movement for thirty years from its forma- 
tion until its demands w 7 ere a part of the British consti- 
tution. Thirty years before the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, or in 1746, several of the colonies asserted 
that they had independent powers as to their own 
affairs. In thirty years after Rousseau began an organ- 
ized agitation, the Bastile fell. In 1351 agitation began 
against the attempts, of British land holders to restore a 
slavery from which the poor had become partially free, 
and in 1381 came the revolt under Wat Tyler." 

"Mr. Clemens cites several other historical epochs to 
prove his ground, and concludes that since agitation for 
socialism began in 1873, we may look for its fruitage 
thirty years later. He points to the book, magazine and 
newspaper literature of the day, nearly all of which 
contains some hint of the spread of socialistic ideas." 

Mr. Clemens has approached closely to the truth. 
1874 is the commencement of a revolutionary cycle, and 
thirty years from that time takes us to the beginning of 
a Thursday septimal, a time of struggle which in five 

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years more brings in a revolutionary period of seven 
years. If conditions are favorable, the 29th and 30th 
years may make a decisive change, but the probability 
is that great convulsive or warlike changes will not 
break out until after thirty -five years. We shall see 
after 1909. 

The periodicity of the Bible lasts a hundred years 
longer than the periodicity of the Papacy, of which 
there can be little doubt. And the career of Apostolic 
Christianity must be counted from a date not far from 
that of its antagonist, the Papacy. To those who love 
Christianity this may seem a sad thought, but really it 
is not, for Christianity had no career along with the 
Papacy. It was a heavenly revelation, and was not of 
this world. Jesus recognized the truth that his religion 
was from above, and that he and his disciples were 
hated, and would be persecuted — he told them they 
were not of this world. 

Periodicity does not change the nature of things, or 
give long life to plants not adapted to the soil. Chris- 
tianity departed as an angel visitor, too beautiful to con- 
tinue in a world of war and clamor. Yet it was a proph- 
ecy of its successor, the glorious coming age of angel 
visitors to earth. It does not live or die with the Papacy. 
It died and was buried and forgotten in the early cen- 
turies. It lived fully only through one cycle of 49 
years from the crucifixion, when the Apostles went 
forth to perish in conflict, and it perished in the Mon- 
day period at the end of the first century, for it had no 
real life after the death of its Apostles. Why should it 
die as its Tuesday period began, instead of going on to 
triumph? Because it was a blessed death, for it was at 
the best time to die, when to live was impossible and 
would have been only to plunge into war with all its 
environment — and the fate of Jesus would have over- 
taken all his outspoken followers. 

War was the destiny of the nations, and the religion 
of peace and liberty could no more exist than flowers 
dould bloom where the hot lava of Vesuvius was flow- 
ing. But in the next 2000 years history will record a 
nobler destiny for man in the progress of evolution. 

The reader must bear in mind that Periodicity is 

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illustrated in the world's history by other calamities 
than ignorance, poverty, war, superstition and crime. Des- 
olation may come from other causes, and we are looking 
for that desolation most antagonistic to American progress 
in the centuries most fatal, which we perceive were the 
12th, 13th, 14th and 15th according to Periodicity. 
. The desolation of the Black Death was even more wide- 
spread and terrible than that of the Papacy. It could not 
Have come in the bright age of the Apostles, and the 
bright genius of Greece, Rome and Egypt. It came along 
with the Papal curse, for that was the time of calamity. 
It came from China, the centre of darkness. It came with 
famines, floods, locusts, great earthquakes and drouth, 
about 1333, destroying 24,000,000 in Asia, and 25,000,000 in 
Europe. Italy lost half its population, and ships floated 
with only corpses on board. Society was insanely corrupt, 
and thousands went around in their crazy superstition, 
furiously and bloodiiy flagellating themselves and singing 
wildly in mobs in the 15th century, and even three cen- 
turies later, for the law did not stop them easily. They 
were following one of the principles of the church, and 
while flagellating themselves mobbed and murdered the 
Jews. Such persons would be arrested to-day as lunatics. 

The Inquisition, too, was fully established in the 13th 
century, and the modern imagination is hardly competent 
to realize the awful horrors of this Black Friday hell. His- 
torians do not dwell upon it. The books that describe it 
are not read, for mankind seek more pleasant reading; but 
it is all authentically recorded, proving that the law of des- 
tiny, which is periodicity, is inexorable, and if we would 
prepare for calamity we should know when it is coming, in 
the world, in our own nation and in our own life. A knowl- 
edge of Periodicity warns against fatal mistakes. 

The horrors of forty-nine millions of plague deaths may 
seem as unsurpassable as they are indescribable, but they 
have been surpassed by the intense agonies of superstition's 
victims and its grand aggregate of slaughter. When we 
count the millions of innocent women perishing bv fire 
under the insane charge of witchcraft, the millions of Euro- 
pean and Asiatic birth perishing in the crazy crusadts, in 
the thirty years war that desolated Germany, in the Span- 
ish attempt for 68 years to exterminate the people of the 
Netherlands for their devotion to liberty, in the desolation 
they inflicted on the West Indies, Mexico and South 
America, on Africa in the slave trade, on the Moors in 
Spain, on the Jews all over Europe, and on all the heretics 
slaughtered in Huguenot, Albigensian and Waldensian 

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campaigns, in imprisonments, hangings and burnings 
everywhere, and in the other numerous ways prompted 
or sanctioned by a church devoted to war from its estab- 
lishment to th« present time, we find an aggregate to which 
nothing else can be compared, either in quantity or inten- 
sity of suffering. 

The red-hot brand of Destiny was stamped upon a suffer- 
ing, agonizing world in its (1090 to 1433) four centuries, and 
the burn which was not quite fatal is not healed, though 
convalescence came in 1776, as periodic law decreed. 

In those awful years when the well were long unable to 
nurse the sick and bury the dead, when the army of priests 
threatened death and torture to all who did not submit to 
the Roman Papal despot as a deputy God — when patriots, 
Christians, philosophers, authors, spiritual women and the 
saintliest of all humanity were consigned to the flames in 
which libraries were burnt — when the Inquisition had its 
terrtfying spies in every nation of the white race to gather 
the best of mankind for torture — when Europe, not satisfied 
with its own wars, like a boiling volcano poured out its 
debased and ignorant millions to crush a nobler race in 
Palestine, and nearly all its intellectual energy was given 
to the propagation of falsehoods and forgeries establishing 
the belief that the universe was a limitless hell, created 
and ruled by a limitless demon. The moie clearly we can 
see through the clouds of falsehood and historical forgery, 
the more horrible do those centuries appear. 

Explanation of Cycles. 

To familiarize the reader with historic cycles, let us ex- 
amine the great grand cycle of 2401 years before 1776. We 
find the first grand cycle (343 years) extends from 1776 back 
to A. D. 1443. This is the Saturday preceding our Sunday 
beginning— the Saturday end of a great grand cycle. From 
1433 back to 1090 is the next grand cycle which precedes 
Saturday, and is Friday. From 1090 back to 747 is the 
grand cycle of Thursday. From 747 to 404 is Wednesday, 
and from 404 to 61 is Tuesday. The next grand cycle, 
Monday, goes beyond the Christian era to 282 B. C. (before 
Christ), and Sundaj r goes back to 625 B., 2401 years before 
our republic. This was an age of intellectual brightness 
and liberty in Grecian civilization, and we are now intro- 
ducing a similar cycle. The past is being reproduced at 
the appropriate period. 

For convenient reference we offer the table of beginnings 
of each cycle and the Friday years of that cycle : 

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CYCLES. FRIDAYS. 

Sunday begins 625 B. C. Its Friday— 380-331 B. C. 

Monday " 282 B. C. " " % — 37 B. C. to 12 A. D. 

Tuesday " 61 A. D. " " —306 B. C. to 355 A. D. 

Wedn'day " 404 A. I). " " —640 B. C. to 698 A. D. 

Thursday " 747 A. D. " " —902 B. C. to 1041 A. D. 

Friday " 1090 A. D. " " —1335 A. D to 1384 A. D. 

Saturday " 1433 A. D. ■■ " —1678 A. D. to 1727 A. D 
ending 1776. 

Each of these grand cycles of 343 years has its Friday 
period, in the sixth 49, and the seven Friday periods are 
shown in the table. The grand Friday of the great grand 
cycle (2401 years) comes in the sixth grand cycled 1090-1433), 
and like other Fridays has its central Friday, 1335-1384, 
which may be considered the darkest and most malignant 
period of history— the very center of which is 1370-1377. 

The Cycles of England. 

Looking to the fate of our own ancestral country in the 
world's Black Friday under the Papacy, we find from 1274 
to 1327 Edward I and II of England engaged in a war of 
conquest, subduing Wales and Scotland— inflicting desola- 
tion on Scotland, conquering and hanging the patriotic 
Wallace. 

War ruinous to Scotland followed to near the end of the 
15th century, for the terrible defeat of the English in 1314 
at Bannockburn did not put an end to their wars. In the 
year 1411, say3 Chambers, "half of the kingdom would have 
become absolutely barbarous if the invasion had not been 
repulsed at Harlow." 

England was as unfortunate as Scotland— conquered by 
William the Conqueror, 1066 — the Normans took the offices 
and the lands of the nation they enslaved. The robber 
line of Norman kings wasted the blood and treasure of the 
nation in attempting conquests on the continent till 1451. 
They conquered Ireland 1171, and Wales in 1285, and might 
have held Scotland if not defeated by Bruce at Bannock- 
burn. We need not make the picture any darker by por- 
traying the social conditions of Great Britain during the 
four dark centuries. 

Periodicity lifts the veil, but assures us that it is all past, 
and after one more of the dread storms of destinjr now 
approaching, America will have a brighter sky overhead in 
an age far surpassing the glory of Greek civilization and 
the dawn of Christianity — but, alas, it is very far off. 

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